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shrinkingverbpresent participle of shrink to become smaller in size or volume through the drawing together of particles of matterthe sweater will shrink a little when washed compressing, condensing, constricting, contracting collapsing, deflating, flatteningdrying up, shriveling(or shrivelling), wilting, witheringabating, decreasing, diminishing, dwindling, lesseningreceding, retreating, withdrawing ballooning, expanding, snowballing, swelling accumulating, growing, increasingballooning, inflating, puffing (up) to draw back in fear, pain, or disgustshrinking back from the approaching flames blenching, cringing, flinching, quailing, recoiling, squinching, wincing blanching, paling, whiteningquaking, quivering, shaking, shuddering, tremblingcrouchingjerking, starting, twitchingreceding, retiring, retreating, withdrawingfaltering, hesitating, reeling, wavering advancing, approaching, nearingbearding, challenging, confronting, defying, facing to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallyhis crush on her is likely to shrink after they start their new lives on different college campuses abating, declining, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, draining (away), dropping (off), dwindling, dying (away or down or out), easing, ebbing, falling, falling away, lessening, letting up, lowering, moderating, palling, phasing down, ratcheting (down)also racheting (down), receding, relenting, remitting, subsiding, tapering, tapering off, waning compressing, condensing, constricting, contractingevaporating, fading (away), frittering (away), giving out, melting (away), petering (out), tailing (off), vanishingslackening, slowing (down)alleviating, relaxingflagging, sinking, weakeningcaving (in), collapsing, deflating accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mounting, mushrooming, picking up, rising, snowballing, soaring, swelling, waxing appearing, emerging, showing upblowing up, distending, elongating, lengthening |