shrinkn.
1.
a. An act of shrinking, flinching, cowering, etc.: †a shrug.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [noun] > shrinking or flinching
wincing1426
winching1525
shrink1590
winking1677
winch1788
flinch1817
wince1865
society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > other gestures > [noun] > shrug
shruggingc1460
shrink1590
shrug1594
shrinking1638
macaroni shrug1775
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 23 b After the first shrinck at the entring of the bullett.
1594 S. Daniel Trag. Cleopatra (Bang) 1729 Not a yeilding shrinke, or touch of feare Consents now to bewray least sence of paine.
c1645 Howell Let. to Capt. T. P. 1 Aug. 1622 He [the Spaniard] never speaks of her [Queen Elizabeth] but he fetcheth a shrink in the shoulder.
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. i. Introd. 11/2 I saw a visible shrink in all Orders of Men among us, from that Greatness..which was in the first Grain, that our God brought from Three sifted Kingdoms, into this Land.
a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. 230 A Shrink, or Contraction, in the Body since 'twas first form'd.
1832 L. Hunt Poems 179 I..almost wish with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise.
1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur 178 The shiver and shrink with which the sitter caught sight of him.
b. spec. in Textiles, the reduction in dimension of a fibre or fabric, usually caused by treatment with water.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > [noun] > shrink
shrink1947
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > shrink
shrink1947
1947 J. T. Marsh Introd. Textile Finishing ix. 244 Modern anti-shrink treatments are based on..two methods.
2. A psychiatrist. Cf. headshrinker n. 2. slang (originally U.S.).
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the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > psychiatrist
mad-doctor1697
head-doctor1850
mind-curer1856
psychiater1857
alienist1864
psychopath1864
psychiatrist1869
mind-curist1889
trick-cyclist1897
soul doctor1922
loony-doctor1925
witch doctor1930
psych1946
headshrinker1950
wig-picker1961
shrink1966
shrinker1967
1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 i. 16 It was Dr Hilarius, her shrink or psychotherapist.
1969 C. Young Todd Dossier 78 What you've written may prove helpful. That's what the man said, the shrink.
1973 Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1434/1 A number of value judgments were offered..by a couple of the shrinks.
1978 M. Walker Infiltrator iii. 39 He could have gone to a pricey shrink who would have certified him too delicate for the Army.
1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Oct. 117/2 It does not take a shrink to see that a man so humanly flawed and artistically inept has got to be a loser.
Compounds
C1. General attributive, as sense 1b.
shrink-proofing n.
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1962 J. T. Marsh Self-smoothing Fabrics ii. 11 The work is based fundamentally on the shrinkproofing of wool.
shrink-resistance n.
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1958 Times 20 Oct. 13/2 This tweed has been woven for the school..and tested for washability, shrink-resistance.
1967 C. R. Shaw & F. Eckersley Cotton xv. 131 (heading) Dimensional stability (shrink resistance).
shrink treatment n.
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1954 A. J. Hall Standard Handbk. Textiles (ed. 4) v. 280 The well-known London shrink treatment is widely used to remove residual stretch in a wool fabric.
C2.
shrink-controlled adj.
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1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Graphic Arts Procedures: Offset Processes ii. 31 Controlled sheets of rubber with shrink-controlled material in the centre of the plate.
1969 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 44/2 Shrink-controlled..cotton.
shrink-proof adj.
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1928 Observer 1 Apr. 13 Shrinkproof, stretchproof and colourfast.
1965 A. J. Hall Standard Handbk. Textiles (ed. 6) v. 307 In recent years three important shrinkproof treatments have come into use.
shrink-resist adj.
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1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. v. 236 (heading) Shrink-resist finishes for cellulose fibre fabrics.
shrink-resistant adj.
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1946 A. J. Hall Standard Handbk. Textiles v. 275 (caption) Sanforising machine for making fabric shrink resistant in washing.
1973 Times 9 Apr. 6/3 The main terms covered by the new standard will be..‘shrink resistant’, ‘crease shedding’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
shrinkv.
/ʃrɪŋk/, U.S. /ʃrɪŋk//ʃræŋk/, past participle shrunk /ʃrʌŋk/. Forms: Old English scrincan, Middle English scrinke(n, Middle English schrinke, Middle English–1500s schrynke, shrynke, Middle English–1500s s(c)hrynk, schrenk(e, (Middle English scrynke, schryngke, scherenke, shrynge, 1500s shren(c)k(e, shryng, shrinck, schrink, scrincke), 1500s–1600s shrinke, 1500s– shrink. past tense Old English scranc (plural scruncon), Middle English schrank, Middle English schranke, 1500s–1600s shranke, 1600s– shrank; Middle English schronk, Middle English–1600s shronke, 1500s shroncke, shroonke, shrounke, 1500s–1600s shronk, shrun(c)ke, 1600s– shrunk; weak 1500s Scottish schrinket, schrinkit, 1500s– (now dialect) shrinked. past participle Old English ( ge)scruncen, ( -scrungen), Middle English scrunken, Middle English schrunken, Middle English shronken, 1600s shruncken, 1500s– shrunken; Middle English–1500s shronke, 1500s shroonke, shruncke, 1500s–1600s shroncke, shrunke, 1500s– shrunk; weak 1500s Scottish schrenkit. I. Intransitive senses.† 1. † 9. To be a deserter or rebel; to fall away from duty or allegiance, or from a person. Obsolete.
a. To wither or shrivel through withdrawal of vital fluid or failure of strength. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > have wasting disease [verb (intransitive)]
dwinec1000
shrinkc1000
swindOE
wastea1300
pinea1325
rot1340
tapishc1375
wastea1387
consume1495
decaya1538
winder1600
pule1607
moch1818
to run down1826
tabefy1891
the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > become reduced in size or extent [verb (intransitive)] > contract or shrink > into wrinkles
wizenc890
clinga1000
shrinkc1000
rivelOE
snurpc1300
wrinkle1528
warp1579
shrivel1588
pucker1598
shirpc1639
tuck1797
weazen1821
cringle1823
swivel1898
c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iii. ix. §3 Þa for þæm ciele him gescruncan ealle þa ædra.]
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 204 Hy [male and female pennyroyal] blowaþ ðonne nealice oþre wyrta scrincaþ & weorniað.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 48 Seonuwa fortogene & ða tan scrinceð up.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 411 Þanne his senewes gonne to schrynke [MS. γ schryngke].
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) II. lf. 248 His synewis shronke and withdrewe them.
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. i. sig. Hij My chekes that hanged syde downe, do shrynke awaye.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 18v Fruit gatherd to timely..will shrink.
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xxxii. 32 The children of Israel eate not of the sinewe which shranke . View more context for this quotation
b. To pine away. Obsolete. rare.
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c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1139 Þer-fore þu scalt scrinkin [c1300 Otho deȝe].
a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xl. vii Though I in want be shrinking, Yet God on me is thinking.
2.
a. To become reduced in size, volume, or extent; esp. to contract through heat, cold, or moisture. Also with up, away.
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the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > become reduced in size or extent [verb (intransitive)] > contract or shrink
shrimc1000
shrinkc1275
to draw togethera1398
gather1577
coact1578
to fall together1583
draw1615
contract1648
to run up1838
to take up1860
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > cause to move back [verb (transitive)] > move or draw something backwards
shrinkc1275
withdrawa1325
retreata1460
retract?a1475
revokea1500
retray1562
revolt1571
back1578
return1594
inshella1616
recede1823
c1275 Sinners Beware 245 in Old Eng. Misc. 80 Heo schule in helle Euer schrinke and swelle.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 347 If..the lethir..were of such kinde that it wolde daili schrinke.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 705/2 If these bordes shrinke, all my purpose is marred.
1616 R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 143 The grownd on the W. side our new gadong did shrink with the extreme rayne.
1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 cclxvi. 67 We..shrink like Parchment in consuming flame.
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. ii. 19 After these waters had rag'd for some time on the Earth, they began to lessen and shrink.
1742 tr. Heister's Gen. Syst. Surg. (1768) II. 10 Those [polypuses] which are recent will sometimes shrink and disappear by repeated Punctuation.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 337 The pyrometric pieces of clay..the more they are heated, the more they shrink in all their dimensions.
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) vi. 270 The modern town has very much shrunk within its ancient limits.
1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography 151 When a body of water is cooled, it shrinks in bulk.
1887 H. Caine Deemster III. xl. 198 Sometime a house had stood there, but..it had shrunken in some settlement of the ground.
b. Of a textile fabric: To contract when wetted. to shrink in the wetting (chiefly passive): apparently originally said proverbially of cloth manufactured in some northern counties; hence allusively and figuratively of anything that is damaged or depreciated in value.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorated in condition [phrase]
to shrink in the wetting1483
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [verb (intransitive)] > other
shrink1483
tattera1616
intermat1904
plush1904
1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 8 Preamble Whiche Clothes so shorn er they be wett..most of werrey necessite shrynk.
1511–12 Act 3 Hen. VIII c. 6 §1 Cloth..which when it shalbe full wette shall shrynke more than oon yerd in all the lenght.
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iv. vi. sig. Uiv It is peryshed .i. it is shrunk in the wetynge.
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. iv. f. 102v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I These..ambitious tytles are now decayed and worthily shronke in the wetting.
1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Riij v To perswade you not to shrinke in the wetting, but like a Kentish cloth..stande inuiolated.
1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes D 1 Three of his sonnes universally ridiculouslie reputed of... The fourth is shrunke in the wetting, or else the Print shoulde haue heard of him.
c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) v. 1942 The first is merry drunk,..although his braines be somewhat shrunk I' th' wetting.
1653 R. Carpenter (title) The Anabaptist washt and washt, and shrunk in the washing.
1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iii. 28 'Tis York-shire Cloath, you know, that shrinks i' th' wetting!
1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) A Stuff that shrinks.
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 292/1 Patent flannel, which does not shrink in washing.
3. To draw the limbs together, bring the body into a small compass; to cower, huddle together; (of the body) to contract as with pain or cold; (of a plant) to shrivel or curl up under a blasting or withering influence.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > act of drawing body into compact form > drawn into compact form [verb (intransitive)]
shrinkc1000
forcrempa1250
squinch1843
scrinch1870
scrunch1884
square1897
scrouge1905
curl1910
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by poor growth > wither [verb (intransitive)]
falloweOE
welka1300
starvec1400
witherc1400
dote?1440
wizena1450
mortifyc1475
vade1492
shrinkc1572
flitter1577
windle1579
shirpc1639
welter1645
welt1854
sickly1882
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 436 Þa wearð se cyning [viz. Belshazzar] to ðan swiðe afyrht, þæt he eal scranc.
c1300 Pol. Songs (Camden) 158 Heo cometh by modered ase a mor-hen, Ant scrynketh for shome.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 449/1 Schrynkyn, rigeo.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 705/2 Be nat a frayde, I shall shrinke so lowe that he shall nat spye me.
c1572 G. Gascoigne Hearbes in Wks. (1869) I. 382 The tender plant..In winter shrinks and shrowdes from euery blast.
1592 N. Breton Pilgrimage to Paradise xiv An vnwildy trunke..With weight whereof, their shoulders often shruncke [printed thruncke].
1602 W. Leigh Soules Solace in W. Harrison Deaths Advantage (ed. 2) 18 At last shrinking downe againe, he [sc. the sick man] gaue a sigh.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. i. 9 Till I shrinke with cold. View more context for this quotation
1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis ii. 38 Distressed Atlas shoulders shrinke with payne.
1680 Revenge; or, Match in Newgate iv. (ad fin.) I'll make him shrink with fear, ere I have done.
1782 W. Cowper Poet, Oyster, & Sensitive Plant 35 When I bend, retire, and shrink.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. iii. 81 Isaac shrunk together, and was silent.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 117 Her small goodman Shrinks in his arm-chair.
1855 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 2) iii. 48 If..any point of its surface be rudely touched, the whole body does not immediately shrink.
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xiv. 298 Bessie remained in his arms shrinking.
4. † b. To fail. Obsolete. rare.
a. In immaterial sense: To be contracted or reduced in extent; to be drawn together into certain limits.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > decrease in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (intransitive)]
littleOE
setc1000
wanzec1175
lessc1225
allayc1275
wane1297
slaken1303
disincreasec1374
slakec1380
decrease1382
debatea1400
unwaxa1400
wastea1400
adminishc1400
lessenc1400
imminish14..
aslakec1405
minish?a1425
assuagec1430
shrinkc1449
to let down1486
decay1489
diminish1520
fall1523
rebate1540
batea1542
to come down1548
abate1560
stoop1572
pine1580
slack1580
scanten1585
shrivel1588
decrew1596
remit1629
contract1648
subside1680
lower1697
relax1701
drop1730
to take off1776
to run down1792
reduce1798
recede1810
to run off1816
to go down1823
attenuatea1834
ease1876
downscale1945
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 347 Bi cause that thilk lijflode wolde continueli schrinke.
1573 G. Gascoigne & F. Kinwelmersh Iocasta ii. i, in G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres sig. Niv When disdayne is shrunke, or sette asyde.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. i. 151 Are all thy Conquests, Glories, Triumphes, Spoiles, Shrunke to this little Measure? View more context for this quotation
1668 J. Dryden Secret-love i. ii. 3 When after all his eagerness of two Minutes before, he shrinks into a faint kiss and a cold complement.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 223 All her Plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy. View more context for this quotation
1743 R. Blair Grave 37 Each Earth-born Joy grows vile, or disappears, Shrunk to a Thing of Nought.
1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 85 To make England, inclined to shrink into her narrow self, the Arbitress of Europe.
1856 C. Kingsley Froude's Hist. Eng. in Misc. (1860) II. 36 How the poor soul would shrink back into nothing before that lion eye.
1911 T. S. Holmes Origin Christian Church Gaul iii. 66 This influence increased as the extent of the imperial authority in Gaul steadily shrank.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)]
withsitc1330
fail1340
defaulta1382
errc1430
to fall (also go) by the wayside1526
misthrive1567
miss1599
to come bad, or no, speedc1600
shrink1608
abortivea1670
maroon1717
to flash in the pan1792
skunk1831
to go to the dickens1833
to miss fire1838
to fall flat1841
fizzle1847
to lose out1858
to fall down1873
to crap out1891
flivver1912
flop1919
skid1920
to lay an egg1929
to blow out1939
to strike out1946
bomb1963
to come (also have) a buster1968
1608 Wotton in Cal. State Papers Ireland 655 He has done well to bring her to Rome, in case all other means should shrink.
5. figurative.1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth lxxvii Jorian from that moment shrunk in and became impenetrable as a hedgehog.† b. To fall or come away from. Obsolete.
a. To move backward, retire, or retreat into a cavity, shelter, or place of refuge; to draw oneself or itself in. In first quot. apparently †to sink deep.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)] > draw itself or oneself in
shrinkc1400
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > sink > deep
shrinkc1400
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come into [verb (transitive)] > backwards
shrink?1521
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2313 Þe scharp schrank to þe flesche þurȝ þe schyre grece.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 1837 Lych hornys of a lytell snayl, Wych..for a lytel strawh wyl shrynke.
?1521 J. Fisher Serm. agayn Luther sig. Biiijv Ye trees whan they be wydred and theyr leues shaken from them and all the moystour shronke in to ye rote.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 54/2 A nother let flee at the Lorde Standley which shronke at the stroke..as shortely as he shranke, yet ranne the blood aboute hys eares.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 287 This done, our Ladye shranke againe into her shryne.
1606 J. Marston Parasitaster iv. G 4 b Her sometimes enuious lips, now shrink in, and giue her nose and her chin leaue to kisse each other.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 710 A twigge..growing vp to a yong tree: which when they offered to pluck vp, it shrunke downe into the ground.
1627 W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving iii. i. 37 Shrinke in while I buckle it, that you may bee gaunt and fine in the wast.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 91 Teach me..Why flowing Tides prevail upon the Main, And in what dark Recess they shrink again. View more context for this quotation
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. i. 44 Till I shrink into my cell again for terror of the sound!
1826 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 5) ii. xi. 330 The eye then shrinks into the orbit.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Poet's Mind 37 It [a fountain] would shrink to the earth if you came in.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > become detached [verb (intransitive)]
skilla1200
unjoinc1390
to come away1575
uncleave1578
to come off1580
separate1638
shrink1688
detach1842
unship1867
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 355/2 The side of a Timber House shrunk from its Mortesses.
6. † b. to shrink out of the collar: to back out, esp. of an enterprise. Obsolete.† c. Nautical. Of the wind: ? To blow fitfully or in gusts. Obsolete.
a. To withdraw from a place or position, esp. in a secret or furtive manner; to turn aside, away, back, etc. furtively or nimbly; to slip or slink away. Now rare.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away quietly or stealthily
steal1154
to steal one's wayc1385
skew?a1400
astealc1400
fleetc1400
slip?c1450
shrink1530
flinch1563
shift1594
foist1603
shab1699
slope1851
smuggle1865
sneak1896
mope1914
to oil out1945
14.. Sir Beues (Sutherl.) 1857 Fro þe ȝates he wyl not shrynke, Tyl he haue both mete and drynke.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 705/2 He craked afore we came hyther that he wolde do marvaylles, but nowe he is shronke asyde no man can tell whyther.
1582 Bible (Rheims) John v. 13 Iesvs shronke aside from the multitude.
1587 T. Underdowne tr. Heliodorus Æthiop. Hist. (1895) 202 When shee had thus done, shee woulde have shrunke away.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 1038 The Hungarians were almost all shrunke home.
1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles i. i Gost. Who was that Shrunke at my entry here?.. Ryn. He shrunke not, sir, his busines call'd him hence.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 255 They took it, and shrunk away so in the throng, I could never hear more of it.
1825 W. Scott Betrothed ii, in Tales Crusaders I. 34 He shrunk from the hall to the seclusion of his own convent.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. v. 361 Mayor Bailly,..gladly shrinks within doors.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlvii. 419 After she had borne a couple of sons, [she] shrank away into a life of devout seclusion.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose [verb (intransitive)] > withdraw from an engagement or promise
starta1450
fang1522
recidivate1528
to draw back1572
flinch1578
to shrink collar1579
retract1616
to shrink out of the collar1636
renege1651
to fly off1667
to slip (the) collarc1677
to declare off1749
to cry off1775
to back out1807
to fight off1833
crawfish1848
welsh1871
to pull out1884
1636 R. Basset in tr. G. A. de Paoli Lives Rom. Emperors 383 Some powerfull Protestant commanders..who shrunk out of the coller of obedience.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 7 May (1974) VIII. 204 Sir W. Pen like a false rogue shrinking out of the collar..so that the whole odium must fall on me.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow fitfully
shrink1627
snuffle1633
winnow1801
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 39 The wind shrinkes, that is, when you must take in the Spretsaile, and get the tacks aboord.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 10 The Winds shrank upon us from off the Coast of Ginea.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 21 When the Gale of good Fortune shrinks, he alters his Course.
1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 36 The Wind shrinking, and blowing off the Island in Squals.
7. † b. To give way; to collapse. Obsolete.
a. To draw back or give way so as to avoid physical contact or conflict; to recoil through physical weakness or lack of courage or with abhorrence from.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > shrink or flinch
fikec1220
wincha1250
withshontec1450
shrink1513
squitch1570
blanch1572
shruga1577
to shrink in the neck1581
wink1605
budgea1616
shy1650
shudder1668
flincha1677
wincea1748
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. viii. 115 Pallas, nocht schrynkand for the mortale dynt.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clx Notwithstandyng that the Romaynes shot great ordinaunces,..yet the Imperiall persones neuer shranke, but manly entered the Bulwarke.
1656 T. Burton Diary (1828) I. 265 He put out his tongue very willingly, but shrinked a little when the iron came upon his forehead.
1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. v. 237 It is shamefull for a King to boast at Table, and shrink in fight.
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 49 Shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land.
1794 M. Wollstonecraft Hist. & Moral View of Origin & Progress French Revol. 133 Is it then surprising, that a very desirable woman, with a sanguine constitution, should shrink abhorrent from his embraces?
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. vii. 146 Wherever he went, the enemy shrunk before him.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. iv. 85 She shrunk back from his grasp.
1862 C. S. Calverley Verses & Transl. (1894) 64 Streets, which foot of traveller shrinks from, As on hot plates shrinks the bear.
1892 S. R. Gardiner Student's Hist. Eng. 14 The soldiers were terrified and shrunk back.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > collapse
founder1489
sink1530
shrink1590
subside1678
collapse1732
blow1783
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. xii. sig. Oo3 He..Nycely trode, as thornes lay in his way Or that the flore to shrinke he did auyse And on a broken reed he still did stay, His feeble steps, which shrunck, when hard thereon he lay.
c1610–15 tr. St. Gregory of Nyssa Life St. Macrina in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 194 Reason being conquered by the excesse of sorrowe shruncke.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. iv. 19 The ground shrinkes before his Treading. View more context for this quotation
1616 R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 128 Our new wall..shronk soe it was this day..puld downe.
8.
a. To refuse or hesitate to act in the face of anything irksome, grievous, horrible, or distasteful; to recoil mentally or morally.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] > avoid > shrink or recoil
wondec897
blencha1250
shunta1250
scurnc1325
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startc1400
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blanch1572
swerve1573
shruga1577
flinch1578
recoil1582
budgea1616
shucka1620
smay1632
blunk1655
shudder1668
resile1678
skew1678
reluctate1833
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. cviv Ye sege yt schrenkis for na schame ye schent might hym schend.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 153 The telȝouris hairt a littill schrenkit.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxii. 8 His herte is stablished, he wil not shrencke.
a1577 G. Gascoigne Grief of Joye Ded., in Compl. Wks. (1910) II. 514 I will then shrinke for no paynes untill I have..touched all the common places of mans perylous pleasures.
a1628 J. Preston New Covenant (1634) 300 A man perhaps will beare many things for Religion, but if it come to death, there he shrinkes.
1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 513 Fancy shrinks..at the thought Of such a gulph as he design'd his grave.
1821 P. B. Shelley Adonais liii. 24 Why linger, why turn back, why shrink, my Heart?
1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 515 There was much which might make good men shrink and hesitate.
b. frequently const. from (often governing a gerund).
ΚΠ
?1566 J. Phillip Commodye Pacient & Meeke Grissill sig. D.iiiiv No Tarquins knight, ne Appian now, Shall cause mee shrinke from duetie due.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 311/30 To cause him suerue or schrink fre ony pairt of his faitht in Christ Jessus.
a1771 T. Gray Agrippina in Poems (1775) 130 Then was the time To shrink from danger.
1813 Sketches of Character (ed. 2) I. i I am convinced there are many, who would shrink from coming out in the manner you have described.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian To Rdr. in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 5 Who hath cumbered the world with his devices, but shrunken from the responsibility thereof.
1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1875) III. 115 There was no sacrifice from which French policy so instinctively shrank.
1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 285 Opinions, which he never shrunk from expressing.
1912 Times 19 Oct. 7/4 The policy of exclusion from which the Board of Agriculture has shrunk.
c. const. at.
ΚΠ
1576 G. Gascoigne Droomme of Doomes Day in Wks. (1910) II. 431 If thou perceyve any man to shrynke at death when it commeth.
a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Qqq2v/1 I have seen him do such things, beliefe would shrinke at.
1733 A. Pope Ess. Man ii. 215 What happier Natures shrink at with Affright.
1780 Mirror No. 71 That delicacy which made him..shrink at the idea of asking a pecuniary favour.
1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous vii*, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. IV. 201 The abbot would not shrink at inflicting upon me the death due to an apostate nun.
1839 T. Hood John Day xiv At last he made a vow To break his being's link; For he was so reduced in size At nothing he could shrink.
d. const. infinitive.
ΚΠ
1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre ii. lxxiii. sig. L viijv For the encrease of his renowme, they wyll not shrynke: to bestowe and spende theyr lyfe.
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Cor. xv. f. xliii Nor shrynke ye to take paynes.
1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. G2 He would not shrinke to spend a thousand pound, To giue the Mountfords name so deep a wound.
1869 F. W. Newman Misc. 107 Novelists do not shrink to tell the form of a hero or heroine's features.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 23 Would I shrink to learn my life-time's limit—days, weeks, months or years?
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > undutifulness > [verb (intransitive)] > by deserting
shrink1553
defect1596
desert1689
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose [verb (intransitive)] > desert one's party or principles
declinec1374
starta1450
revert?a1525
to fall away1535
to turn (one's) tippet1546
revolt1549
shrink1553
to turn one's coat1565
to come over1576
apostate1596
to change (one's) sides1596
defect1596
renegade1611
to change foot1618
to run over1643
to face about1645
apostatize1648
tergiverse1675
tergiversate1678
desert1689
apostasize1696
renegado1731
rat1810
to cross the floor1822
turncoat1892
to take (the) soup1907
turn1977
1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1580) 62 Your Sister would not dooe her duetie, but shranke awaie.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxxiij They can not forsake nor shrynke from the true doctrine.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxvjv Whan he was gone, the fellowes of that conspiracie, shranke away immediatly.
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. vi. xlii. 118 Such as shrinked were to be vpholden and cured.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. v. 176 Ile plaie the ease dropper, To see if any meane to shrinke from me. View more context for this quotation
II. Transitive (mainly causative) senses.† 13. To cause to withdraw or disappear; to draw in (the horns, the claws); also with back, up. Hence in allusive phrases signifying withdrawal from a position of prominence, from an undertaking, etc.† 15. † 16. To quit. Obsolete. rare.
10.
a. To cause to contract or be reduced in size, volume, or extent; to cause to contract by moisture, heat, or cold; to cause (a limb, sinew, plant) to wither or (the skin) to wrinkle. Also with up.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > reduce in size or extent [verb (transitive)] > contract or shrink
inknitc1374
drawc1390
shrinka1398
strain1398
to shorten up1530
contrahe1540
to gather up1553
to draw in1572
contract1604
constringe1652
purse1668
constrain1697
undistend1868
collapse1908
the world > life > the body > skin > textures or states of skin > [verb (transitive)] > wrinkle
frounce1390
shrinka1398
rivel1543
irrugate1566
wrinkle1566
plough1590
wrinklec1590
furrow1597
purse1598
ruge1615
trench1624
lirkc1686
seam1695
line1819
wrink1821
engrain1862
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. cxxxv. 804 Þereynne bredeþ no venyme but an herbe þat hatte apium risus þat draweþ and shrinkeþ iawes of men.
a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 62 Ellez walld þai schrenk þe stomake.
1533 J. Heywood Play of Wether sig. Diiv I loue no launders that shrynke my gere in wettynge.
1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle iii. sig. E4v Let them..Start at a shadow, and shrinke vp their bloud.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iii. ii. 156 To shrinke mine Arme vp like a wither'd Shrub. View more context for this quotation
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 24 in Justa Edouardo King Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams.
1646 R. Crashaw Sospetto d'Herode xxii, in Steps to Temple 58 That the Great Angell-blinding light should shrinke His blaze, to shine in a poore Shepheards eye.
1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. 155 If the Rain wet them, instead of shrinking them, it will swell them.
1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 172 God shrank his sinews, and makes him stand like an antick statue.
1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) ii. 17 Alom-Stypticks with contracting Power Shrink his thin Essence like a rivell'd Flower.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Mariana in South in Poems (new ed.) 23 The steady glare Shrank the sick olive sere and small.
1866 R. Redgrave & S. Redgrave Cent. Painters II. 602 The moisture of the paste shrinks the spot of canvas to which it is applied.
1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 57 A human head which has by some process or other been shrunk to about the size of a large orange.
b. spec. To treat (a textile material) with water so that it may not shrink after it is made up.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > treat or process textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > shrink
shrink1856
preshrink1905
1856 S. Warner Hills of Shatemuc xii They [socks] wouldn't want shrinking.
1883 ‘Sylvia’ Lady's Guide Dressmaking 122 Braid is the best trimming for..frocks. It should always be ‘shrunk’ before being put on the dress.
c. Mechanics. To cause (a piece, e.g. the tyre of a wheel, the jacket of a cannon) to be fixed tightly on (to) another (which it is intended to fit) by heating it, slipping it into place when sufficiently expanded, and then rapidly cooling it. Also with on (adv.) and occasionally absol.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > reduce in size or extent [verb (transitive)] > contract or shrink > put on by shrinking
shrink1839
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > attach or affix [verb (transitive)] > adhere to > cause to adhere > by shrinking
shrink1839
1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 449/1 To make the wheel in the usual way and then shrink the railway tire..upon it.
1861 Russell in Times 26 Oct. A simple..piece of artillery, with a thick iron band shrunk on over the breach.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 June 2/1 Krupp began with solid guns and found himself obliged to come to the English system of building up guns by the shrinking on of hoops. At the present time France, Germany, Italy, and Russia shrink as we do.
d. transferred. To reduce in number. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] > reduce in quantity or number
thinc1440
depopulate1545
shorten1604
disquantity1608
waste1617
dequantitate1646
paucify1648
castrate1728
shrink1832
1832 C. M. Goodridge Narr. Voy. South Seas 65 We endeavoured to shrink them [sc. mice] by destroying immense quantities.
11. To draw (the body, the limbs, oneself) into a smaller compass.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > posture > act of drawing body into compact form > drawn into compact form [verb (transitive)]
shrinkc1374
shrug1603
mitch1612
huddle1755
scrunch1844
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) i. pr. i. 5 Sche constreynede and schronk hir seluen lyche to þe comune mesure of men.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 31 Her Alabastrine well-shap't Limbs she shrinks.
1649 W. Davenant Love & Honour ii. ii The chaste Indian plant, That shrinks and curles his bashfull leaves at the Approach of man.
1694 J. Collier Misc. iii. 6 A modest Man, if he was somewhat taller than his Neighbours, would chuse to shrink himself into the Dimensions of the Company.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 303. ¶13 The Multitude and Rabble of Spirits immediately shrunk themselves into a small Compass.
1875 W. Morris tr. Virgil Æneids xii. 861 Her body huge she shrank.
12. In immaterial sense: To reduce to smaller limits or compass.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)]
littleeOE
anitherOE
wanzelOE
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slakea1300
littenc1300
aslakec1314
adminisha1325
allayc1330
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low1340
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abatea1398
rebatea1398
subtlea1398
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forlyten?a1400
imminish14..
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scarcec1440
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debate?c1450
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appetisse1474
alow1494
mince1499
perswage?1504
remita1513
inless?1521
attenuate1530
weaken1530
defray1532
mitigate1532
minorate1534
narrow?1548
diminuec1550
extenuate1555
amain1578
exolve1578
base1581
dejecta1586
amoinder1588
faint1598
qualify1604
contract1605
to pull down1607
shrivel1609
to take down1610
disaugment1611
impoverish1611
shrink1628
decoct1629
persway1631
unflame1635
straiten1645
depress1647
reduce1649
detract1654
minuate1657
alloy1661
lower?1662
sinka1684
retreat1690
nip1785
to drive down1840
minify1866
to knock down1867
to damp down1869
scale1887
mute1891
clip1938
to roll back1942
to cut back1943
downscale1945
downrate1958
slim1963
downshift1972
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. vii. sig. H8v 'Tis the sawcie seruant, that causes the Lord to shrinke his descending fauours.
1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 24 That were a phrase to shrink the glorious omnipresence of God speaking, into a kind of circumscriptive absence.
1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Purgatorio ix. 44 Thy strength Shrink not, but rise dilated.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. ii. 12 Logical cobwebbery shrinks itself together.
1891 J. Martineau Ess., Rev., & Addr. IV. Pref. If to the dwarfed and altered thought I had tried to shrink the grand old language.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > cause to move back [verb (transitive)]
shrinkc1374
back1781
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 300 And þough he erst hadde poured vp and doun, He was þo glad his hornes yn to shrynke.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. 2199 Cometh Schame anoon..And causeth Loue hornys for to schrynke.
1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia iii. i The cheerefull Cock..Doth sing to see how Cynthia shrinks her horne.
1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. B1 I will make you shrinke your snailie hornes. View more context for this quotation
1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 57v The Lyon is a Lyon, though he shrink vp his clawes.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 24 My wretched..soule may provoke thee to shrinke in thy graces.
1642 J. Vicars God in Mount 84 The rest (who more wisely shrunk-in their heads, and recanted their former oversight).
1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xxii, in Poems 10 The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn.
1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iii. i. 35 The Devil..puts out his Horns to doe a mischief, and then shrinks 'em back for safety, like a Snail into her shell.
1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day ii. 42 To make the Sun shrink in his Beam.
14. † b. to shrink in the neck: to flinch, recoil.† c. = shrug v. to shrink up (occasionally in) one's shoulders: to shrug one's shoulders; figurative (with at) to regard with displeasure, aversion, or indifference.
a. To draw (the head, the hand, etc.) aside, back, or away in a furtive, ashamed, or retiring manner. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) x. 257 Whan bayard sawe Mawgis, he began to shrynke his eeres [Fr. etreindre les oreilles].
1575 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers in Wks. (1907) I. 65 To sitte a side and shrinke His harbraind head with out dame dainties dore.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 166 b He had shrunke his head out of the coller of those insupportable paines.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xx. 455 Thus snatcht he..a Neats foot, And threw it at Vlysses: who, his head Shrunke quietly aside.
1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. iii. 84 The Riuer..Shrunke his graue head, beneath his siluer waues.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Lovers Progres i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Kkkv/2 We made them shun us, And shrink their rugged heads.
1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. iv. 79 She shrank her hand back.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > shrink or flinch
fikec1220
wincha1250
withshontec1450
shrink1513
squitch1570
blanch1572
shruga1577
to shrink in the neck1581
wink1605
budgea1616
shy1650
shudder1668
flincha1677
wincea1748
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 124 One of them asked him what she was: who poore man shrinking in his neck, said he knew her not.
1705 J. Collier Ess. Moral Subj.: Pt. III i. 13 When did they refuse to lay their Throat fair, or shrink in their Neck at the dispatching blow?
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > loathe or abhor [verb (intransitive)]
wlatec1000
reckc1300
loathec1430
to shrink up (occasionally in) one's shoulders1605
nauseate1657
society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > other gestures > [verb (intransitive)] > shrug
shrug1587
to shrink up (occasionally in) one's shoulders1605
1605 H. Wotton in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) I. 336 They shrink up the shoulder, as if it were a greater matter than we are aware of.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ ii. xxv. 48 Amongst others that shrink in the shoulders at it.
1676 Pacquet Advices to Men of Shaftesbury 76 If ye talk of State-Commodities, they shrink the shoulder, and say nothing.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 291 He shrunk up his Shoulders at it.
1720 D. Defoe Capt. Singleton (1840) iv. 61 They shrunk up their shoulders, as Frenchmen do.
a. To shun, avoid. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun
overboweOE
bibughOE
fleea1000
forbowa1000
ashun1000
befleec1000
beflyc1175
bischunc1200
withbuwe?c1225
waive1303
eschew1340
refuse1357
astartc1374
sparec1380
shuna1382
void1390
declinea1400
forbeara1400
shurna1400
avoidc1450
umbeschewc1485
shewe1502
evite1503
devoid1509
shrink1513
schew?a1534
devite1549
fly1552
abstract1560
evitate1588
estrange1613
cut1791
shy1802
skulk1835
side-slip1930
to walk away from1936
punt1969
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Prol. 61 The schipman schrenkis the schour, and settis to schore.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 34 In this last byckring I shrunck no danger or hazard.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 392 Gratianus..as yet but a stripling..shrunke not five souldiors.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvii. 118/2 A man resolued to abide the utmost hazard of Battle, and not to shrink his aduersary.
b. to shrink collar: = 6b. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose [verb (intransitive)] > withdraw from an engagement or promise
starta1450
fang1522
recidivate1528
to draw back1572
flinch1578
to shrink collar1579
retract1616
to shrink out of the collar1636
renege1651
to fly off1667
to slip (the) collarc1677
to declare off1749
to cry off1775
to back out1807
to fight off1833
crawfish1848
welsh1871
to pull out1884
1579–80 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1595) 907 He began..to rowse himselfe, and to lift vp his head: but he shrunke choller againe soone after.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away from [verb (transitive)]
leaveeOE
beleavea1250
devoidc1325
voidc1330
roomc1400
wagc1400
departa1425
refusea1425
avoid1447
ishc1450
remove1459
absent1488
part1496
refrain1534
to turn the backc1540
quita1568
apart1574
shrink1594
to fall from ——1600
to draw away1616
to go off ——a1630
shifta1642
untenant1795
evacuate1809
exit1830
stash1888
split1956
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart from or leave [verb (transitive)]
leaveeOE
beleavea1250
devoidc1325
voidc1330
to pass out ofa1398
roomc1400
departa1425
avoid1447
ishc1450
part1496
quita1568
shrink1594
shifta1642
to turn out of ——1656
refraina1723
blow1902
1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie iv. ii. sig. G3 Thou knowest wee are towne borne children, and wil not shrinke the citie.
Compounds
shrink film n. = shrink-wrap n. at shrink-wrapping n. Derivatives.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > synthetic resins and plastics > [noun] > plastic > wrapping film
film1917
plastic film1939
plastic wrap1949
shrink-wrap1961
shrink film1967
Saran Wrap1968
cling film1975
1967 Times Rev. Industry May 76/3 Shrink film: as a replacement for fibre-board cartons in containing canned and bottled goods during distribution.
1969 L. S. Mounts in W. R. R. Park Plastics Film Technol. v. 124 Shrink films are sealed by special point sealers, hot wire..or impulse.
shrink fit n. = shrinkage fit n. at shrinkage n. Compounds 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > [noun] > adhesion > shrinkage fit
shrink fit1882
shrinkage fit1895
1882 Amer. Machinist 8 Apr. 9/1 How much should be allowed in making a shrink fit of a wrought iron crank to the shaft?
1941 L. S. Marks Mech. Engineers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 923 Shrink fits are used in places where a force fit would be difficult to assemble, as for example, locomotive wheel tires.
1970 K. Ball Fiat 600, 600D Autobook i. 16/1 The starter ring is a shrink-fit on the flywheel.
shrink-ring n. a ring of metal that is shrunk on; a ring in a structure that bears the strain of expansion and shrinkage.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > annular quality > ring > shrunk on
shrink-ring1903
1903 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 32 419 Well-made shrink-ring jointed cast-steel flywheels.
1903 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 32 410 To cast the boss in sections and have two very heavy shrink rings round the boss.
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