Shrink vs Deduct - What's the difference?
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As verbs the difference between shrink and deduct is that shrink is to cause to become smaller while deduct is to take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount. As a noun shrink is shrinkage; contraction; recoil.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
shrink English
Verb
To cause to become smaller.
- The dryer shrank my sweater.
To become smaller; to contract.
- This garment will shrink when wet.
* Francis Bacon
- I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room.
* Dryden
- And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
To cower or flinch.
- Molly shrank away from the blows of the whip.
To draw back; to withdraw.
* Milton
- The Libya Hammon shrinks his horn.
(figuratively) To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
* Alexander Pope
- What happier natures shrink at with affright, / The hard inhabitant contends is right.
* Jowett (Thucyd.)
- They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task.
Synonyms
* (avoid an unwanted task) funk, shirk
Antonyms
* (to cause to become smaller) expand, grow, enlarge, stretch
* (become smaller) expand, grow, enlarge, stretch
Noun
( en noun)
shrinkage; contraction; recoil
- Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink , / That I had less to praise. — Leigh Hunt.
(slang, sometimes, pejorative) A psychiatrist or therapist; a head-shrinker.
- You need to see a shrink .
- My shrink said that he was an enabler, bad for me.
* 1994 , (Green Day),
- I went to a shrink , to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing my down.''
Usage notes
* The slang sense was originally pejorative, expressing a distrust of practitioners in the field. It is now not as belittling or trivializing.
Synonyms
* head-shrinker
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deduct English
Verb
( en verb)
To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount.
- I will deduct the cost of the can of peas from the money I owe you.
Related terms
* deduce
* deduction
Anagrams
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