Shrink vs Shrank - What's the difference?
shrink | shrank |
To cause to become smaller.
To become smaller; to contract.
* Francis Bacon
* Dryden
To cower or flinch.
To draw back; to withdraw.
* Milton
(figuratively) To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
* Alexander Pope
* Jowett (Thucyd.)
shrinkage; contraction; recoil
(slang, sometimes, pejorative) A psychiatrist or therapist; a head-shrinker.
* 1994 , (Green Day),
(shrink)
(US, Pennsylvania Dutch English) A large highly decorative Dutch or German-style piece of furniture, which combines aspects of a clothing wardrobe, curio, and cabinet.
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As verbs the difference between shrink and shrank
is that shrink is to cause to become smaller while shrank is simple past of shrink.As nouns the difference between shrink and shrank
is that shrink is shrinkage; contraction; recoil while shrank is a large highly decorative Dutch or German-style piece of furniture, which combines aspects of a clothing wardrobe, curio, and cabinet.shrink
English
Verb
- The dryer shrank my sweater.
- This garment will shrink when wet.
- I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room.
- And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
- Molly shrank away from the blows of the whip.
- The Libya Hammon shrinks his horn.
- What happier natures shrink at with affright, / The hard inhabitant contends is right.
- They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task.
Synonyms
* (avoid an unwanted task) funk, shirkAntonyms
* (to cause to become smaller) expand, grow, enlarge, stretch * (become smaller) expand, grow, enlarge, stretchNoun
(en noun)- Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink , / That I had less to praise. — Leigh Hunt.
- You need to see a shrink .
- My shrink said that he was an enabler, bad for me.
- I went to a shrink , to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing my down.''