<span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> <span class="searchmatch">down</span> simple past of shrink <span class="searchmatch">down</span>...
shrink <span class="searchmatch">down</span> (third-person singular simple present shrinks <span class="searchmatch">down</span>, present participle shrinking <span class="searchmatch">down</span>, simple past <span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> <span class="searchmatch">down</span> or shrunk <span class="searchmatch">down</span>, past participle...
away, simple past <span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> away or shrunk away, past participle shrunk away or shrunken away) To draw back in fear; cringe, back <span class="searchmatch">down</span>, shy away. 1912, Stratemeyer...
clothing. 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter XV, in Indiscretions of Archie: He <span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> from the prospect of being confronted next day, at the height of his misery...
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....
Asia's forests were felled, the rhino's habitat <span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> and became fragmented. (transitive) To strike <span class="searchmatch">down</span>, kill, destroy. 1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The...
metal tyre ('tyer') pulled the wooden wagon wheel tightly together when it <span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> after being fitted red-hot. The spelling tyre is used in the United Kingdom...
Undine at length <span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> back with an unrecognizing face; but her movement made her opera-glass slip to the floor, and her neighbour bent <span class="searchmatch">down</span> and picked it...
of wounding with the sword, and in any case his critics charged that he <span class="searchmatch">shrank</span> from steel; but his invective was worthy of Demosthenes and his words drew...
chapter 6: They travelled for thirteen hours <span class="searchmatch">down</span>-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains <span class="searchmatch">shrank</span>, and the vegetation changed, and the people...