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Synonyms for shrinking
shrink·ing
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
shrinking
Synonyms:
afraid, cowardly, cringing, faint-hearted, fearful, frightened, pusillanimous, timid, timorousAntonyms:
adventurous, bold, brave, chivalric, chivalrous, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, heroic, intrepid, undaunted, undismayed, valiant, venturesome
Princeton's WordNet
shrinking, shrinkagenoun
process or result of becoming less or smaller
"the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage"
Synonyms:
shoplifting, shrinkageshrinkingnoun
the act of becoming less
Synonyms:
shrinkage
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PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "shrinking":
contraction, narrowing, shrinkage, dwindling, stricture, declining, decreasing, diminishing, reduction, decrease, reducing
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2750 | reduction | |
#4576 | reducing | |
#4933 | decrease | |
#5795 | afraid | |
#12520 | decreasing | |
#13763 | declining | |
#19418 | contraction | |
#20134 | frightened | |
#21238 | shrinking | |
#22989 | fearful | |
#25606 | diminishing | |
#26926 | narrowing | |
#33672 | timid | |
#34394 | shrinkage | |
#38914 | cowardly | |
#43633 | dwindling | |
#56713 | shoplifting | |
#95154 | stricture | |
#100376 | cringing | |
#149487 | timorous | |
#272099 | pusillanimous |
How to use shrinking in a sentence?
Defeating Islamic terrorists, shrinking government, growing the economy -- these are the issues that matter most, instead we're debating social issues like abortion and gay rights.
We think China is unlikely to engineer 25% depreciation to counter the impact of tariff as the cost of capital outflows amid the shrinking current account surplus may outweigh the benefit of supporting export, the pressure on RMB depreciation may depend on three near-term factors including the size of China's retaliation package, U.S.'s plan to impose tariff on the remaining $325 billion products and market's assessment on whether the setback is temporary or not.
I feel that the job market is shrinking at a rapid pace.
At a time when the middle class is shrinking, poverty is increasing and millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages it makes no sense to me to have an immigration bill which, over a period of years, would bring millions of 'guest workers' into this country who are prepared to work for lower wages than American workers, we need to increase wages in this country, not lower them.
I'm concerned that my party is no longer a big-tent, Reagan-esque party where we're shrinking and shrinking the base, we're just talking to the hardcore base.
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