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shrinking

noun

1 shrinking

Process or result of becoming less or smaller.

synonym: shrinkage.

Roget 195: contraction, reduction, diminution; decrease of size etc. 36; defalcation, decrement; lessening, shrinking etc. v.; compaction; ... show more

Roget 603: unwillingness etc. adj.; indisposition, indisposedness; disinclination, aversation; nolleity, nolition; renitence, renitency; reluctance; indifference ... show more

Roget 36: decrease, diminution; lessening etc. v.; subtraction etc. 38; reduction, abatement, declension; shrinking etc. (contraction.) ... show more

Dutch: inkrimping, krimp
Polish: obkurczenie się, ściągnięcie się, skurczenie się

2 shrinking

The act of becoming less.

Dutch: inkrimping, krimp
Polish: chudnięcie


Moby thesaurus: Olympian, Sanforizing, aloof, aseptic, atrophy, attenuation, backward, bashful, bashfulness, blank, boggle, boggling, chilled, chilly, cold, compunction, constrained, consumption, cool, cowardly ... show more.

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