shrink away
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But Tommy was bashful, and the attention he had thus drawn upon himself made him blush. He was a timid lad and he shrank away now, evidently fearing Shell."
- "Emily could be fearless enough on occasion; but in the presence of a nature which she instinctively felt to be hostile to hers she shrank away in something that was more repulsion than fear."