Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A preterit of
shrink .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. of
shrink .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past of
shrink . - noun US A large highly
decorative Dutch orGerman -style piece offurniture , which combines aspects of aclothing wardrobe ,curio , andcabinet .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her own loyalty was threatening to weaken, and she shuddered and shrank from the contempt she could see creeping in.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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She dropped to 149 pounds over time and shrank from a size 28 to a size 8.
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That he afterward shrank from the pursuit of perfection seems inarguable.
Orson Agonistes 2006
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That he afterward shrank from the pursuit of perfection seems inarguable.
Orson Agonistes 2006
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Having done so, he asked the House of Commons for its approval and never shrank from a vote of censure.
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There were those who shrank from the surgery necessary to cut that cancer out of the nation.
Abraham Lincoln 1925
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He said scarcely a word; it was as though his unhappiness merely craved company and shrank from the knowledge of what the night might bring.
The Windy Hill 1922
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But at the same time he was dreading the meeting; he shrank from the thought of looking into Jack's eyes, cold – even scornful.
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I shrank from the thought of the boy being taken away from us.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920
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I cannot convey any idea of how distasteful the thing was to me; of how I shrank from the unpleasant conspicuousness of walking down a street lined with spectators.
Aleta Dey 1919
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