<span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> simple past of shrink <span class="searchmatch">back</span>...
shrink <span class="searchmatch">back</span> (third-person singular simple present shrinks <span class="searchmatch">back</span>, present participle shrinking <span class="searchmatch">back</span>, simple past <span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> or shrunk <span class="searchmatch">back</span>, past participle...
Charles Lee Brenton, the form "<span class="searchmatch">shrank</span>" is used in IV Maccabees 14:4 ("None of the seven youths turned cowardly, or <span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> from death", singular subject)...
shrinking away, simple past <span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> away or shrunk away, past participle shrunk away or shrunken away) To draw <span class="searchmatch">back</span> in fear; cringe, <span class="searchmatch">back</span> down, shy away. 1912...
stood up and positioned himself in front of Lars Meiners. He (Lars) <span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> and muttered, "Picked up, I guess." Conjugation of zurückschrecken (class...
and terrified at the change—at the cessation of movement. They <span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> alarmedly <span class="searchmatch">back</span> […] 1872, John Hay et al., Not Pretty, But Precious[2]: Now I thought...
simple past <span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> or (nonstandard) shrunk, past participle shrunk or shrunken) (transitive) To cause to become smaller. The dryer <span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> my sweater....
Because most of the animals had learned to distrust the two-leggeds, they <span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> into the forest. 2013, Vine Deloria, Vine Deloria, Jr., James Treat,...
snapped a holo-cube into the projector and switched on. I gasped and <span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> in my seat as a great crustacean sprang into being in front of me, blind...
to erupt; to burst forth 1951, Phyllis Hambledon, Nobody's Child: She <span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span>, the words volcanoed, words that stabbed again, and yet again 2012, George...