shrink

• A physician who specializes in psychiatry (synset 110507601)
  hypernym: medical specialist, specialist - practices one branch of medicine
  hyponym:

  • 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

• Wither, as with a loss of moisture (synset 200242575)
  hypernym: decrease, diminish, fall, lessen - decrease in size, extent, or range
  hyponym:

  • 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
  synonym: shrivel, shrivel up, wither
• Draw back, as with fear or pain (synset 202064997)
  hypernym: move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
  hyponym: retract, shrink back - pull away from a source of disgust or fear
  synonym: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, squinch, wince
• Reduce in size
  Reduce physically (synset 200241924)
  cause: contract, shrink - become smaller or draw together
  hypernym: decrease, lessen, minify - make smaller
  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)
  hypernym: decrease, diminish, fall, lessen - decrease in size, extent, or range
  hyponym: flex - contract
  synonym: contract
• Decrease in size, range, or extent (synset 200152378)
  hypernym: decrease, diminish, fall, lessen - decrease in size, extent, or range
  synonym: shrivel

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