What does shrink back mean?

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shrink back

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English

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shrinks back (present, singular) shrinking back (participle, present) shrank back (past) shrunk back (past) shrunk back (participle, past) shrunken back (participle, past)

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