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Troubled vs Shrinking - What's the difference?

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Troubled is a related term of shrinking.


As verbs the difference between troubled and shrinking

is that troubled is (trouble) while shrinking is .

As an adjective troubled

is anxious, worried, careworn.

As a noun shrinking is

the act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away.

troubled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Anxious, worried, careworn.
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (trouble)

    • shrinking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away.