shrink
/ˈʃɹɪŋk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "The dryer shrank my sweater."
- "The bottom line is this: To shrink your gut, you need to start listening to it."
- "This garment will shrink when wet."
- "I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room."
- "And shrink like parchment in consuming fire."
- "Since 1982, it has shrunk by 250 meters."
Etymology
From Middle English schrynken, from Old English sċrincan, from Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną. Cognate with Dutch schrinken (“to shrink”). The sense “psychologist, psychotherapist” is a clipping of head-shrinker.