Shrinks Synonyms and Antonyms

Reduce in size; reduce physically
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. contracts
  2. reduces
  3. shortens
  4. withers
  5. narrows
  6. withdraws
  7. winces
  8. weakens
  9. wanes
  10. swindles
  11. shies
  12. retreats
  13. retracts
  14. constricts
  15. retires
  16. recoils
  17. recedes
  18. quails
  19. lessens
  20. huddles
  21. hesitates
  22. flinches
  23. shrivels
  24. dwindles
  25. diminishes
  26. compresses
  27. demurs
  28. decreases
  29. curtails
  30. cringes
  31. cowers
  32. constructs
  33. condenses
  34. clings
  35. blenches
  36. atrophies
  37. compacts
Antonyms:
  1. increases
  2. stretches
  3. enlarges
  4. develops
  5. grows
  6. expands
Decrease in size, range, or extent
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. shrivels
A physician who specializes in psychiatry
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. psychiatrists
An act of drawing back in an involuntary or instinctive fashion
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. winces
  2. flinches
  3. cringes

Shrinks Sentence Examples

  • I don't suppose there are any shrinks among the Naturals.

  • Why, I don't know, but I'm sure the shrinks could tell you.

  • This reveals the empiricist temper, and points to an attempted empiricist solution of great problems. Butler holds that more ambitious philosophies are valid, but he shrinks from their use.

  • Nothing really new is produced in the living world, but the germs which develop have existed since the beginning of things; and nothing really dies, but, when what we call death takes place, the living thing shrinks back into its germ state.3 et celle des especes.

  • I long to take nature to my heart, that nature before whose depth the faint-hearted theologian shrinks back; and with nature man, man in his entire quality."

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