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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 shrink /ˈʃrɪŋk, ||ˈsrɪŋk/
 收縮,萎縮,畏縮(vi.)收縮,退縮,萎縮,縮小,畏縮(vt.)使收縮,使縮小

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 shrink /ˈʃrɪŋk/ 名詞
 收縮,退縮,變小

From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary

 SHRINK
 SHRINK文件壓縮系統

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.]
 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.]

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Shrink, v. t.
 1. To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.
 2. To draw back; to withdraw. [Obs.]
    The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn.   --Milton.
 To shrink on Mach., to fix (one piece or part) firmly around (another) by natural contraction in cooling, as a tire on a wheel, or a hoop upon a cannon, which is made slightly smaller than the part it is to fit, and expanded by heat till it can be slipped into place.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Shrink, n.
 1. The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.
 Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink,
 That I had less to praise.   --Leigh Hunt.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 shrink
      n : a physician who specializes in psychiatry [syn: psychiatrist,
           head-shrinker]
      v 1: wither, especially with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried
           and shriveled" [syn: shrivel, shrivel up, wither]
      2: draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they
         showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: flinch, squinch,
          funk, cringe, wince, recoil, quail]
      3: reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink
         the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" [syn: reduce]
      4: become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The
         balloon shrank" [syn: contract] [ant: expand, stretch]
      5: decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank";
         "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
         [syn: shrivel]
      [also: shrunken, shrunk, shrank]