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Definition of shrinking : 1. a. & n. from Shrink.
2. of Shrink

Synonyms:

shoplifting, shrinkage

decreasing, eroding, draining, deducting, abating, dwindling, depleting, decrementing, concentrating, compressing, shortening, lowering, dying down, truncating, abridging, contracting, deflating, curtailing, lessening, subsiding, receding, compacting, abbreviating, diminishing

faltering, halting, delaying, balking, hesitating, waiting, pausing

clipping, shearing, lightening, tapering, weeding, bobbing, cropping, pruning, shaving, trimming, paring, minimizing, reducing, culling, downgrading, nipping

cowering, blinking, wincing, flinching

shy, uncertain, ambivalent, undecided, shifty, watery, inconsistent, hesitant, dillydallying, infirm, spineless, indecisive, irresolute, irresponsible, vacillating, unsure, insipid, flitting, yellow, weak, impulsive, capricious, volatile, changeable, erratic, double-minded, unwilling, shilly-shally, unresolved, halfhearted, fly-by-night, tentative, fickle, undependable

averting, shirking, declining, shunning, skipping, abstaining, avoiding, escaping, recoiling, sidestepping, eluding, dodging, evading, bypassing, circumventing, ducking

squeezing, condensing, withering

dissolving, exhausting, debiting, misplacing, dropping, dissipating, dispossessing, losing, divesting, forfeiting

Usage examples:

• At the end of a few minutes, though, she recovered, and, shrinking from Mellersh, she looked round. - "The Master of the Ceremonies", George Manville Fenn.
• A few of them stepped a little out of the line, and stamped to shake off the cold; but all the rest remained motionless, shrinking into themselves, and closer together. - "Short Stories and Essays From "Literature and Life"", William Dean Howells.
• Bat Scanlon shifted his eyes from the threatening figure of Fenton, and the shrinking one of the nurse; upon the stairs, coming slowly down, her loose dressing- gown held about her by one slim hand, was Mary Burton. - "Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist", John T. McIntyre.