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单词 shrink
释义
shrink
verb
uk
/ʃrɪŋk/us
/ʃrɪŋk/
shrank|shrunk

shrinkverb(BECOME SMALLER)

B2[IorT]
tobecomesmaller, or to make somethingsmaller:
（使）缩小，（使）变小
Yoursweaterwill shrink if youwashit at too high atemperature.用温度过高的水洗毛衣，毛衣会缩水。
The company'sprofitshave shrunkfrom$5.5 millionto$1.25 million.公司利润从550万美元减少到了125万美元。
Theproductivityimprovementshave shrunkourcostsby25percent.生产率的提高使我们的成本下降了25%。
See also
shrunken
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to become smaller or less
  • decreaseThe tests show that the tumour has decreased in size since we started treatment.
  • lessenA healthy diet lessens your risk for cardiovascular disease.
  • lowerThey've just lowered the age at which you can join.
  • reduceThey've just reduced the price.
  • bring downThey are bringing down their prices.
  • dropStock prices dropped today after the company's announcement.
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More examples
  • Myskirtshrank in thewash.
  • Thesetrousersmust have shrunk - I can't do thezipup.
  • Have you shrunk? Youlookso muchthinner!
  • People shrink as they getolder.
  • Unfortunately, theworldpopulationof Hawaiiangeesehas shrunk to verysmallnumbers.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Becoming and making smaller or less
  • abridgment
  • attenuate
  • attenuated
  • attenuating
  • attenuation
  • boil
  • damp
  • falling
  • falling-off
  • foreshorten
  • foreshortened
  • go through the flooridiom
  • rollback
  • runsomeone/somethingdown
  • rundown
  • sag
  • salami slicing
  • shave
  • telescope
  • tumble
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shrinkverb(BE FRIGHTENED)

[Iusually+ adv/prep]literary
tomoveaway from someone or something because you arefrightened:
畏缩，退缩
Thechildshrank behind thesofaas hisfathershoutedat him.孩子在父亲冲他吼叫时退缩到了沙发后面。
When she wasyoungershe would shrink(away)frommewheneverIspoketo her.她小的时候，我一和她说话她就会退缩。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Making short, sudden movements
  • aquiver
  • chatter
  • convulse
  • convulsion
  • convulsive
  • cringe
  • jerkily
  • jerkiness
  • jerky
  • jig
  • jiggle
  • quake
  • quiver
  • recoil
  • shaky
  • shudder
  • squirm
  • toss
  • tremulous
  • whip
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Related word

shrinkage

Phrasal verb

shrink fromsomething
shrink
noun[C]
informal
uk
/ʃrɪŋk/us
/ʃrɪŋk/
apsychiatrist:
I was sodepressedthat Iendedup going toseea shrink.我太郁闷了，最后不得不去找心理医生看看。
Synonyms
analyst
psychoanalyst
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Science of psychology & psychoanalysis
  • analyse
  • analysis
  • behavioural science
  • behaviourist
  • cathartic
  • certify
  • committal
  • Freudian
  • profiler
  • psych
  • psychiatric
  • psychic
  • psychical
  • psycho
  • psychological profiling
  • psychologist
  • self-discovery
  • superego
  • transference
  • unconscious
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(Definition ofshrinkfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
shrink
verb
uk
/ʃrɪŋk/us
/ʃrɪŋk/
shrank|shrunk

shrinkverb(BECOME SMALLER)

B2[IorT]
tobecomesmaller, or to make somethingsmaller
（使）缩小，（使）变小
Yoursweaterwill shrink if youwashit at too high atemperature.用温度过高的水洗毛衣，毛衣会缩水。
The company'sprofitshave shrunkfrom$5.5 millionto$1.25 million.公司利润从550万美元减少到了125万美元。
Theproductivityimprovementshave shrunkourcostsby25percent.生产率的提高使我们的成本下降了25%。
See also
shrunken
More examples
  • Myskirtshrank in thewash.
  • Thesetrousersmust have shrunk - I can't do thezipup.
  • Have you shrunk? Youlookso muchthinner!
  • People shrink as they getolder.
  • Unfortunately, theworldpopulationof Hawaiiangeesehas shrunk to verysmallnumbers.

shrinkverb(BE FRIGHTENED)

[Iusually+ adv/prep]literary
tomoveaway from someone or something because you arefrightened
畏缩，退缩
Thechildshrank behind thesofaas hisfathershoutedat him.孩子在父亲冲他吼叫时退缩到了沙发后面。
When she wasyoungershe would shrink(away)frommewheneverIspoketo her.她小的时候，我一和她说话她就会退缩。

Phrasal verb

shrink fromsth
shrink
noun[C]
informal
uk
/ʃrɪŋk/us
/ʃrɪŋk/
apsychiatristorpsychoanalyst
精神病医生
I was sodepressedthat Iendedup going toseea shrink.我太郁闷了，最后不得不去找心理医生看看。

shrink| American Dictionary

shrink
verb
us
/ʃrɪŋk/
past tenseshrankus/ʃræŋk/shrunkus/ʃrʌŋk/|past participleshrunkus/ʃrʌŋk/shrunkenus/ˈʃrʌŋ·kən/

shrinkverb(BECOME SMALLER)

[I/T]
tobecomesmallerorcausesomething tobecomesmaller:
[I]The show’saudiencehas shrunk in the last fewmonths.
[T]I shrank mysweaterby putting it in thedryer!

shrinkverb(MOVE AWAY)

[Ialways+ adv/prep]
tomoveaway from somethingunpleasantorfrightening:
My firstreactionwas to shrink indisgustat thesightof it.
[Ialways+ adv/prep]
If you shrink from something, youavoidit:
Kate’s a goodworker, but sheseemsto shrink fromresponsibility.
shrink
noun[C]
slang
us
/ʃrɪŋk/

shrinknoun[C](DOCTOR)

apsychiatrist,psychotherapist, orpsychoanalyst
(Definition ofshrinkfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

shrink| Business English

shrink
verb
uk
/ʃrɪŋk/us
shrank|shrunk
[I]
tobecomesmaller:
Investorsfearthatprofitmarginswill shrink during the comingquarter.
shrink by sthTheeconomyshrunk by .04% inrealterms.
shrink to sthOurshareof the USmarkethas shrunk to 27%.
[T]
to make somethingsmaller:
Wehopethemeasureswillsavemoneyand shrink the company'scarbonfootprint.
(Definition ofshrinkfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofshrink

shrink
The effect of monocular lid suture is obvious in individual animals, because deprivation shrinks one eye's columns and expands the other's.
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He noted that this contract curve was shrinking as the number of agents was growing, leading eventually to the competitive equilibrium.
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As the opportunity value of continued existence shrinks, the corresponding duty fades to insignificance and eventually disappears altogether.
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As shrinks further, the only interior equilibrium that still exists is nonmonetary, but it disappears as becomes sufficiently low.
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As anticipated, the impact of costs shrinks as the plan grows larger but the effect differs by plan type.
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In this case the implementations of functions use interval arithmetic and approximations to transcendental functions that get more accurate as the input interval shrinks.
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Since usage counts can increase (by shrinking inlining or record selection) as well as decrease (by any shrinking rule), this might seem dangerous.
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In the developed world, many enterprises increasingly operate in situations in which traditional assets, (physical and monetary) are of shrinking importance to business success.
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In other words, a base of reduplication is never shrunk down to size in a reduplicative context in order to better satisfy base-reduplicant identity.
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In the region of the wake, the plasma shrinks in size, and forms a narrow plasma channel.
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The same tendency to form rapidly shrinking sub-sheets was found and described in [27, 36].
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Without fanfare, the official consensus estimate of the size of the problem is shrunk.
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An object in space possesses three degrees of freedom that determine its spatial relationship with other objects, namely, transition, rotation, and scaling enlargements or shrinking!.
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As we can see this is not true, but the difference in the constant in the exponent shrinks surprisingly quickly as m becomes large.
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There is also a well-defined temporal sequence where a given cell grows, then exchanges fluid with a neighbouring cell, and then shrinks.
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