shrink
sh ringk
- n a physician who specializes in psychiatry
- v wither, as with a loss of moisture
- v draw back, as with fear or pain
- v reduce in size; reduce physically
Hot water will shrink the sweater
Can you shrink this image? - v become smaller or draw together
- v decrease in size, range, or extent
- They must think, "Why doesn't she just shrink into the darkness and fear, and give up? How can her husband think of going on with his life's plan?.
- In a speech, she described an experiment performed by another group in which remote healing was used to shrink tumors in mice.
- And heaven help the woman who takes her limerence problem to a shrink! Tennov thinks that limerence is as likely to break out in psychotherapy (me shrink, you supplicant) as .