shrink
Noun
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is a type of: medical specialist, specialist - practices one branch of medicinesubtypes:
- alienist - a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness
- analyst, psychoanalyst - a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis
specific instances:- horney, karen danielsen horney, karen horney - United States psychiatrist (1885-1952)
- jaspers, karl jaspers, karl theodor jaspers - German psychiatrist (1883-1969)
- charles frederick menninger, charles menninger, menninger - United States psychiatrist who with his sons founded a famous psychiatric clinic in Topeka (1862-1953)
- karl augustus menninger, karl menninger, menninger - United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1893-1990)
- menninger, william claire menninger, william menninger - United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1899-1966)
- harry stack sullivan, sullivan - United States psychiatrist (1892-1949)
same as: head-shrinker, psychiatrist
Verb
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subtypes:
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is a type of: move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motionsubtypes: retract, shrink back - pull away from a source of disgust or fear
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subtypes:
- reduce, scale down - make smaller
- reef - reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef
- miniaturise, miniaturize - design or construct on a smaller scale
- depopulate, desolate - reduce in population
- downsize - design or manufacture in a smaller size
- contract - make smaller
same as: reduce -
subtypes: flex - contractsame as: contract
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same as: shrivel
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