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SHRINK

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shrink I. verb past shrank şi shrunk, part. trec. shrunk şi shrunken A. intranzitiv

1. a se scurta, a se micşora; a se strâmta; a se contracta.

2. a intra la spălat / la apă.

3. a se zbârci, a se încreţi.

4. a scădea, a se împuţina.

5. (from) a se retrage, a se da înapoi (de la), a se sfii;

I shrink from telling her mă codesc să i-o spun;

to shrink into oneself a se închide în sine.

shrink I. verb past shrank şi shrunk, part. trec. shrunk şi shrunken B. tranzitiv

1. a reduce, a micşora, a strâmta.

2. a face (o ţesătură) să intre la spălat.

3. a face (un metal) să se contracte.

shrink II. substantiv

1. dare înapoi, mişcare de recul.

2. strâmtare, micşorare, strângere.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

But tell him, sir, she had shrunk away from him, if you don't feel too hard to me to do it, that I never was in any way the cause of his misfortune.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

White Fang shrank together and grew tense as he crouched under it.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Treatment for HIV itself can shrink the lesions.

(Kaposi's Sarcoma, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

But we are face to face with duty; and in such case must we shrink?

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I felt that I should have no peace until I knew, and yet I shrank from asking her again after once she had told me what was false.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fanny shrunk back to her seat, with feelings sadly pained by his language and his smell of spirits; and he talked on only to his son, and only of the Thrush, though William, warmly interested as he was in that subject, more than once tried to make his father think of Fanny, and her long absence and long journey.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

No interference upon our part could have saved the man from his fate, but, as the woman poured bullet after bullet into Milverton’s shrinking body I was about to spring out, when I felt Holmes’s cold, strong grasp upon my wrist.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It results from nuclear shrinking.

(Perinuclear Halo Present, NCI Thesaurus)

A study to test whether a new treatment has an anticancer effect (for example, whether it shrinks a tumor or improves blood test results) and whether it works against a certain type of cancer.

(phase II trial, NCI Dictionary)

Shrinking of adipose tissue.

(Adipose Tissue Atrophy, NCI Thesaurus)

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