Dictionary entry details
• SHRINK (noun)
Meaning:
A physician who specializes in psychiatry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
head-shrinker; psychiatrist; shrink
Hypernyms ("shrink" is a kind of...):
medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shrink"):
alienist (a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness)
analyst; psychoanalyst (a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis)
Instance hyponyms:
Harry Stack Sullivan; Sullivan (United States psychiatrist (1892-1949))
Menninger; William Claire Menninger; William Menninger (United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1899-1966))
Karl Augustus Menninger; Karl Menninger; Menninger (United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1893-1990))
Charles Frederick Menninger; Charles Menninger; Menninger (United States psychiatrist who with his sons founded a famous psychiatric clinic in Topeka (1862-1953))
Jaspers; Karl Jaspers; Karl Theodor Jaspers (German psychiatrist (1883-1969))
Horney; Karen Danielsen Horney; Karen Horney (United States psychiatrist (1885-1952))
• SHRINK (verb)
Meaning:
Wither, as with a loss of moisture
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
wither; shrivel up; shrivel; shrink
Context example:
The fruit dried and shriveled
Hypernyms (to "shrink" is one way to...):
decrease; diminish; fall; lessen (decrease in size, extent, or range)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shrink"):
atrophy (undergo atrophy)
die back; die down (suffer from a disease that kills shoots)
dry up; mummify (dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Draw back, as with fear or pain
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
recoil; quail; funk; flinch; cringe; wince; shrink; squinch
Context example:
she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf
Hypernyms (to "shrink" is one way to...):
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shrink"):
retract; shrink back (pull away from a source of disgust or fear)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Reduce in size; reduce physically
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
shrink; reduce
Context examples:
Hot water will shrink the sweater / Can you shrink this image?
Hypernyms (to "shrink" is one way to...):
decrease; lessen; minify (make smaller)
Cause:
contract; shrink (become smaller or draw together)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shrink"):
contract (make smaller)
depopulate; desolate (reduce in population)
miniaturise; miniaturize (design or construct on a smaller scale)
reef (reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef)
reduce; scale down (make smaller)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Become smaller or draw together
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
shrink; contract
Context examples:
The fabric shrank / The balloon shrank
Hypernyms (to "shrink" is one way to...):
decrease; diminish; fall; lessen (decrease in size, extent, or range)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shrink"):
flex (contract)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence example:
These fabrics shrink easily
Antonym:
stretch (become longer by being stretched and pulled)
Meaning:
Decrease in size, range, or extent
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
shrivel; shrink
Context examples:
His earnings shrank / My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me
Hypernyms (to "shrink" is one way to...):
decrease; diminish; fall; lessen (decrease in size, extent, or range)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence example:
Their earnings shrink this year
