0 to become smaller, or to make something smaller:
Your sweater will shrink if you wash it at too high a temperature.
The company's profits have shrunk from $5.5 million to $1.25 million.
The productivity improvements have shrunk our costs by 25 percent.
1 to move away from someone or something because you are frightened:
2 a psychiatrist :
4 to move away from something unpleasant or frightening:
5 a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, or psychoanalyst
7 to make something smaller:
People shrink as they get older.
Unfortunately, the world population of Hawaiian geese has shrunk to very small numbers.
The effect of monocular lid suture is obvious in individual animals, because deprivation shrinks one eye's columns and expands the other's.
He noted that this contract curve was shrinking as the number of agents was growing, leading eventually to the competitive equilibrium.
As the opportunity value of continued existence shrinks, the corresponding duty fades to insignificance and eventually disappears altogether.
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變小, (使)縮小,(使)變小, 受驚嚇…
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变小, (使)缩小,(使)变小, 受惊吓…
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encoger(se), reducir(se), encogerse…
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encolher, reduzir…
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縮む(縮める), 縮小する(させる)…
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daral(t)mak, çek(tir)mek, küçül(t)mek…
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rétrécir, diminuer, se détourner…
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encongir(-se), reduir(-se)…
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