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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Shrink \Shrink\, v. i. [imp. {Shrank}or {Shrunk}p. p. {Shrunk}
   or {Shrunken}, but the latter is now seldom used except as a
   participial adjective; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shrinking}.] [OE.
   shrinken, schrinken, AS. scrincan; akin to OD. schrincken,
   and probably to Sw. skrynka a wrinkle, skrynkla to wrinkle,
   to rumple, and E. shrimp, n. & v., scrimp. CF. {Shrimp}.]
   1. To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract
      into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to
      become compacted.

            And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble
            steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay.
                                                  --Spenser.

            I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes,
            will shrink or draw into less room.   --Bacon.

            Against this fire do I shrink up.     --Shak.

            And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
                                                  --Dryden.

            All the boards did shrink.            --Coleridge.

   2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action
      from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.

            What happier natures shrink at with affright, The
            hard inhabitant contends is right.    --Pope.

            They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank
            from the task.                        --Jowett
                                                  (Thucyd.)

   3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body,
      or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] --Shak.

Shrinking \Shrink"ing\,
   a. & n. from {Shrink}.

   {Shrinking head} (Founding), a body of molten metal connected
      with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to
      compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; -- called
      also {sinking head}, and {riser}.

資料來源 : WordNet®

shrinking
     n 1: process or result of becoming less or smaller; "the material
          lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage" [syn: {shrinkage}]
     2: the act of becoming less