"Shrunk" is a word in ENGLISH
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The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to …
Read the complete definitionTo shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; -- with
Read the complete definitionTo become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.
Read the complete definitionThe act of growing to a thing; usually applled to the gradual and Imperceptible accumulation of land by nat-ural causes, …
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Read the complete definitionTo depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses …
Read the complete definitionbalat n {1} sea cucumber. {2} one considered not to count for anything. Ngánung wà man ku nímu bahíni? Unsa …
Read the complete definitionVery modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a …
Read the complete definitionTo shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
Read the complete definitionOne who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.
Read the complete definitionForward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.
Read the complete definitionTo fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have …
Read the complete definitionTo draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.
Read the complete definitionTo dawn together; to contract; to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink.
Read the complete definitionTo be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass …
Read the complete definitiontending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the …
Read the complete definitionThe quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.
Read the complete definitionThe act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of …
Read the complete definitionTo behave with reserve or coyness; to shrink from approach or familiarity.
Read the complete definitionShrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry.
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