Synonyms for shrinking
shrink·ing

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1. shrinking

   Synonyms:
   afraid, cowardly, cringing, faint-hearted, fearful, frightened, pusillanimous, timid, timorous

   Antonyms:
   adventurous, bold, brave, chivalric, chivalrous, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, heroic, intrepid, undaunted, undismayed, valiant, venturesome

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shrinking, shrinkagenoun

   process or result of becoming less or smaller

   "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage"

   Synonyms:
   shoplifting, shrinkage

2. shrinkingnoun

   the act of becoming less

   Synonyms:
   shrinkage

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1. • Decrease

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1. shrinkingadjective

   Synonyms:
   coy, shy, diffident, bashful, modest, retiring

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1. List of paraphrases for "shrinking":

   contraction, narrowing, shrinkage, dwindling, stricture, declining, decreasing, diminishing, reduction, decrease, reducing

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1. Joshua Matz:

   There is a real appetite on the part of the conservative majority to rapidly expand the Free Exercise Clause while shrinking the Establishment Clause to a vanishing point.

2. Choi Kwan-soon:

   The reasoning that second-quarter is off-season in Japan has some merit, but it is too soon for Line to have shrinking revenue.

3. Amos Gilad:

   Syria is gone. Syria is dying. The funeral will be declared in due time. This Bashar Assad, he will be remembered in history textbooks as the one who lost Syria, until now he has lost 75 percent of Syria ... He is, practically, governor of 20 percent of Syria. And his future, if I may predict it, is shrinking all of the time. And maybe we will have him as the president of 'Alawistan'.

4. Manfred Weber:

   We are facing a shrinking centre, so what I would ask us to do to is to join our forces to work together from now.

5. Joe Biden.As Robert P. Jones:

   White Republicans have stuck it out and there is [ virtually ] no change, and one of their biggest base groups, White evangelical Protestants, are right there, democrats have moved, independents have moved, other religious groups have moved, so it is a Republican Party and a shrinking, aging White Christians base that is increasingly out of touch with where the country is.