Synonyms: psychiatrist, shrink, head-shrinker
Definition: a physician who specializes in psychiatry
Similar words: specialist, medical specialist
Definition: practices one branch of medicine
Definition: decrease in size, range, or extent
Usage: His earnings shrank; My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me
Similar words: fall, lessen, diminish, decrease
Definition: decrease in size, extent, or range
Usage: The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester; The cabin pressure fell dramatically; her weight fell to under a hundred pounds; his voice fell to a whisper
Definition: become smaller or draw together
Usage: The fabric shrank; The balloon shrank
Similar words: fall, lessen, diminish, decrease
Definition: decrease in size, extent, or range
Usage: The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester; The cabin pressure fell dramatically; her weight fell to under a hundred pounds; his voice fell to a whisper
Definition: reduce in size; reduce physically
Usage: Hot water will shrink the sweater; Can you shrink this image?
Synonyms: wither, shrink, shrivel, shrivel up
Definition: wither, as with a loss of moisture
Usage: The fruit dried and shriveled
Similar words: fall, lessen, diminish, decrease
Definition: decrease in size, extent, or range
Usage: The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester; The cabin pressure fell dramatically; her weight fell to under a hundred pounds; his voice fell to a whisper
Synonyms: cringe, wince, squinch, shrink, flinch, funk, quail, recoil
Definition: draw back, as with fear or pain
Usage: she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf
Similar words: move
Definition: move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
Usage: He moved his hand slightly to the right