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shrink : 英英辞書
Shrink
(), v. i.[imp.Shrank () or Shrunk () p. p.Shrunk or Shrunken (), but the latter is now seldom used except as a participial adjective; p. pr. & vb. n.Shrinking.] [OE. shrinken, schrinken, AS. scrincan; akin to OD. schrincken, and probably to Sw. skrynka a wrinkle, skrynkla to wrinkle, to rumple, and E. shrimp, n. & v., scrimp. CF. Shrimp.]
1. To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.
And on a broken reed he still did stay
His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay.
Spenser.
I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room.
Bacon.
Against this fire do I shrink up.
Shak.
And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
Dryden.
All the boards did shrink.
Coleridge.
2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
What happier natures shrink at with affr
Shrink
v. t.
1. To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.
2. To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.]
The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn.
Milton.
To shrink on (Mach.), to fix (one piece or part) firmly around (another) by natural contraction in cooling, as a tire on a wheel, or a hoop upon a cannon, which is made slightly smaller than the part it is to fit, and expanded by heat till it can be slipped into place.

Shrink
n.The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.
Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink,
That I had less to praise.
Leigh Hunt.



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