Antonyms for shrink
ʃrɪŋkshrink

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1. shrinknoun

   Antonyms:
   stretch, enlarge, grow, expand

   Synonyms:
   head-shrinker

2. shrinknoun

   To contract, to (cause to) become smaller.

   Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink, / That I had less to praise. Leigh Hunt.

   Antonyms:
   grow, stretch, expand, enlarge

   Synonyms:
   head-shrinker

3. shrinkverb

   To cower or flinch.

   Molly shrank away from the blows of the whip.

   Antonyms:
   stretch, enlarge, expand, grow

   Synonyms:
   head-shrinker

4. shrinkverb

   Synonyms:
   funk, shirk

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shrink

   Antonyms:
   stretch, expand, dilate, venture, dare

   Synonyms:
   contract, shrivel, withdraw, retire, recoil, revolt

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. psychiatrist, head-shrinker, shrinkverb

   a physician who specializes in psychiatry

   Antonyms:
   stretch

   Synonyms:
   head-shrinker, headhunter, psychiatrist

2. shrivel, shrivel up, shrink, witherverb

   wither, as with a loss of moisture

   "The fruit dried and shriveled"

   Antonyms:
   stretch

   Synonyms:
   wince, shrivel, fade, flinch, recoil, shrivel up, squinch, quail, contract, wither, reduce, funk, cringe

3. flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quailverb

   draw back, as with fear or pain

   "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"

   Antonyms:
   stretch

   Synonyms:
   rebound, cower, bound, shrivel up, reverberate, quail, flinch, funk, shrivel, grovel, spring, ricochet, kick back, cringe, take a hop, wither, backfire, bounce, backlash, resile, reduce, wince, kick, recoil, squinch, creep, crawl, squint, contract, fawn

4. shrink, reduceverb

   reduce in size; reduce physically

   "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"

   Antonyms:
   stretch

   Synonyms:
   wither, bring down, decoct, slim down, quash, boil down, foreshorten, quail, trim down, thin out, cut, funk, trim back, trim, slenderize, cut down, flinch, tighten, wince, shrivel up, abridge, reduce, recoil, contract, melt off, subdue, scale down, cringe, concentrate, thin, deoxidize, subjugate, dilute, shorten, slim, shrivel, squinch, come down, deoxidise, abbreviate, cut back, keep down, lose weight, repress

5. shrink, contractverb

   become smaller or draw together

   "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"

   Antonyms:
   stretch

   Synonyms:
   shorten, sign, condense, concentrate, sign up, abbreviate, shrivel up, constrict, narrow, quail, flinch, funk, take, shrivel, undertake, reduce, cut, cringe, abridge, squeeze, get, compress, contract, sign on, wince, foreshorten, recoil, squinch, wither, press, compact

6. shrink, shrivelverb

   decrease in size, range, or extent

   "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"

   Antonyms:
   stretch

   Synonyms:
   recoil, wince, shrivel, flinch, quail, shrivel up, squinch, contract, wither, reduce, funk, cringe

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1. shrinkverb

   Synonyms:
   contract, shrivel, decrease, dwindle, flinch, recoil, blench, wince, winch

How to use shrink in a sentence?

1. Alex Brazier:

   The Bank will have a bias to acting early and gradually. It expects to be adding around 1 percent to the countercyclical capital buffer on UK exposures of all banks, even before the overall threat of future losses looks high, and if threats materialise, or shrink, the Bank will reduce its expectation for capital buffers back towards the baseline level.

2. Lisa Wise:

   Anything is possible, but I can tell just from our list, and I dont know what anyone elses looks like, but I can tell that universe is going to continue to shrink.

3. Vinay Prasad:

   The easy solution is to report specifics, how well did people do taking the medicine ? Did the cancer shrink ? How long did people live ?

4. Jake Sullivan:

   If something does occur, it will only serve to reinforce and highlight the fact that Patricia Kim is going to be engaged in the Indo-Pacific, is going to be a stalwart ally, and is going to stand up to and not shrink from any acts of aggression.

5. Jamie Clark:

   The perpetrators of 2008 still need to pay a penance and must shrink balance sheets in so doing, we read job cuts as only one sign of the secular, rather than cyclical trend to permanently smaller banks.

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