Synonyms of the word

shrink

• v. (transitive) To cause to become smaller.
• v. (intransitive) To become smaller; to contract.
• v. (intransitive) To cower or flinch.
• v. (transitive) To draw back; to withdraw.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To withdraw or retire, as from danger.
• v. (intransitive) To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.
• n. Shrinkage; contraction; recoil.
• n. (slang, sometimes pejorative) A psychiatrist or therapist; a head-shrinker.

contract

• n. An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or…
• n. (law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at…
• n. (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
• n. (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
• n. (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
• adj. (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
• adj. (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
• v. (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to…
• v. (transitive) To enter into a contract with.
• v. (transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
• v. (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
• v. (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
• v. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
• v. To betroth; to affiance.

cringe

• n. A posture or gesture of shrinking or recoiling.
• n. (dialect) A crick.
• n. An embarrassing event, item or behaviour which causes an onlooker to cringe.
• v. (dated, intransitive) To bow or crouch in servility.
• v. (intransitive) To shrink, cower, tense or recoil, as in fear, disgust or embarrassment.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.

decrease

• v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
• n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be…

diminish

• v. (transitive) To make smaller.
• v. (intransitive) To become smaller.
• v. To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).
• v. (intransitive) To taper.
• v. (intransitive) To disappear gradually.
• v. To take away; to subtract.

fall

• n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
• n. A loss of greatness or status.
• n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
• n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
• n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
• n. See falls.
• n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
• v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
• v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
• v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
• v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
• v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
• v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
• v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

flinch

• n. A reflexive jerking away.
• v. To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe.
• v. To dodge (a question), to avoid an unpleasant task or duty.
• v. (games) (of the croquet game) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.

funk

• n. (obsolete) Spark.
• n. (obsolete) Touchwood, punk, tinder.
• n. (countable) Mental depression.
• n. (uncountable) A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly.
• n. (countable) One who fears or panics; a coward.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.
• v. (transitive) To frighten; to cause to flinch.
• n. (countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odour.
• n. (uncountable) A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles,…
• v. (intransitive) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
• v. (transitive) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.

head-shrinker

• n. (slang) A psychiatrist or psychotherapist; a shrink.
• n. Literally, one who shrinks heads, as previously done by some Amazon tribes.

lessen

• v. (transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
• v. (intransitive) To become less.

minify

• v. To make smaller.
• v. To reduce in apparent size, as for example objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase…
• v. (computing) To remove white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to…

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

psychiatrist

• n. (medicine) A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.

quail

• v. (intransitive) To waste away; to fade, wither.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To frighten, daunt (someone).
• v. (intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted, fearful.
• v. (intransitive) Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, give way.
• n. Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family…
• n. (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
• n. (obsolete) A prostitute, so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
• v. To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.

recoil

• n. A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
• n. The state or condition of having recoiled.
• n. (firearms) The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function…
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To retreat before an opponent.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To retire, withdraw.
• v. To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
• v. (of a firearm) To kick back when fired.

reduce

• v. (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish,…
• v. (intransitive) To lose weight.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
• v. (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
• v. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
• v. (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
• v. (transitive, law) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to…
• v. (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
• v. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).

shrivel

• v. (intransitive) To collapse inward; to crumble.
• v. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.
• v. (transitive) To draw into wrinkles.

specialist

• adj. (Britain) Specialised.
• n. Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.
• n. (medicine) A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery.
• n. (US, military) Any of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to that of corporal.
• n. An organism that is specialized for a particular environment.

squinch

• n. (architecture) A structure constructed between two adjacent walls to aid in the transition from a polygonal…
• v. to scrunch up (one's face).

wince

• n. A sudden movement or gesture of shrinking away.
• n. A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between…
• v. (intransitive) To flinch as if in pain or distress.
• v. (transitive) To wash (cloth), dip it in dye, etc., with the use of a wince.
• v. To kick or flounce when unsteady or impatient.

wither

• adv. (obsolete or chiefly in compounds) Against, in opposition to.
• v. (obsolete) To go against, resist; oppose.
• v. (intransitive) To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water.
• v. (transitive) To cause to shrivel or dry up.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To lose vigour or power; to languish; to pass away.
• v. (intransitive) To become helpless due to emotion.
• v. (transitive) To make helpless due to emotion.