Definitions for shrank

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Spelling: [shrangk]

IPA: /ʃræŋk/

Shrank is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in shrank (ahknrs).

Definitions for shrank

noun

1. an act or instance of shrinking.
2. a shrinking movement.
3. shrinkage.
4. Also, shrinker. Also called head shrinker.Slang. a psychotherapist, psychiatrist, or psychoanalyst.

verb

1. a simple past tense of shrink.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to shrink or contract; reduce.
2. Textiles. to cause (a fabric) to contract during finishing, thus preventing shrinkage, during laundering, of the garments made from it.

verb (used without object)

1. to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance:
2. to contract or lessen in size, as from exposure to conditions of temperature or moisture:
3. to become reduced in extent or compass.

Origin of shrank

before 900; 1955-60 for def 9; Middle English schrinken, Old English scrincan; cognate with Middle Dutch schrinken, Swedish skrynka to shrink, Norwegian skrukka old shrunken woman

Examples for shrank

Then, because it was useless, redundant, only destructive, or so it seemed, she shrank back again, defeated.

Denison admits that he shrank from doing the project in the run-up to his birthday last year, when he had planned to start it.

Robert shrank from informing him, but he knew it to be his duty, and he was too brave to put it off.

Email eliminated the voice; text messages could be sent quicker but shrank the mail.

The number of 18- to 34-year-old Americans shrank by nine million during his watch.

It would be misrepresenting Andrew to say that he shrank from the future.

"You cannot," said Philip, putting her gently aside, while she shrank from his touch.

But Katherine put her hands before her face and shrank back.

Of a sudden, she shrank again, and turned her head away, and her body trembled.

To survive, they shrank, shedding workers and retiring around 500 planes to desert graveyards.