shrink

1. A physician who specializes in psychiatry (synset 110507601)
   is a type of: medical specialist, specialist - practices one branch of medicine
   subtypes:

   • 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

1. Wither, as with a loss of moisture (synset 200242575)
   "The fruit dried and shriveled"
   is a type of: decrease, diminish, fall, lessen - decrease in size, extent, or range
   subtypes:

   • atrophy - undergo atrophy
   • blast - shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly
   • die back, die down - suffer from a disease that kills shoots
   • dry up, mummify - dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture
   same as: shrivel, shrivel up, wither
2. Draw back, as with fear or pain (synset 202064997)
   "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
   is a type of: move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
   subtypes: retract, shrink back - pull away from a source of disgust or fear
   same as: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, squinch, wince
3. Reduce in size;
   Reduce physically (synset 200241924)
   "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
   causes: contract, shrink - become smaller or draw together
   is a type of: decrease, lessen, minify - make smaller
   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
4. Become smaller or draw together (synset 200241457)
   "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"
   is a type of: decrease, diminish, fall, lessen - decrease in size, extent, or range
   subtypes: flex - contract
   same as: contract
5. Decrease in size, range, or extent (synset 200152378)
   "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
   is a type of: decrease, diminish, fall, lessen - decrease in size, extent, or range
   same as: shrivel

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