shrink
Noun
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A physician who specializes in psychiatry (synset 110507601)
hypernym: medical specialist, specialist - practices one branch of medicinehyponym:
- alienist - a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness
- analyst, psychoanalyst - a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis
instance hyponym:- 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)
synonym: head-shrinker, psychiatrist
Verb
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Wither, as with a loss of moisture (synset 200242575)
"The fruit dried and shriveled"hyponym:
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Draw back, as with fear or pain (synset 202064997)
"she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"hypernym: move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motionhyponym: retract, shrink back - pull away from a source of disgust or fear
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Reduce in size;
Reduce physically (synset 200241924)"Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"hyponym:- 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
synonym: reduce -
Become smaller or draw together (synset 200241457)
"The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"hyponym: flex - contractsynonym: contract
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Decrease in size, range, or extent (synset 200152378)
"His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"synonym: shrivel
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