Shrinking is valid Scrabble Word

Is shrinking a scrabble word?
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Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for SHRINKING in dictionary:

VERB:

become or make smaller in size or amount
(of clothes or material) become smaller as a result of being immersed in water
slip a metal tyre or other fitting on to (something) while it is expanded with heat and allow it to tighten in place
move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust
be averse to or unwilling to do (something difficult or unappealing)
become withdrawn.
(of a person's face or other part of the body) wrinkled or shrivelled through old age or illness

NOUN:

a psychiatrist
process or result of becoming less or smaller
the act of becoming less

ADJECTIVE:

drawing back, shy

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to contract or draw back
a. & n. from Shrink.

Words related to SHRINKING

shrank13 shrink13 shrinkingly22 shrinks14 shrunk13 shrunken15

Words that contain SHRINKING

shrinkingly22 unshrinking19 preshrinking22 unshrinkingly24

How to use SHRINKING in a sentence

She moved instinctively, but it was not in shrinking.
After that last visit of hers she felt a horrible shrinking from entering the place.
When I saw him at Athens, the spring was still shrinking in the bud.
It was not without doubt and shrinking that Bothwell saw whither his schemes were leading him, but he would not, he could not, turn back.
Yet somehow or other the suggestion of a shrinking reserve and holding back reached my mind.
And the instinctive shrinking from a return to her husband brought doubts.
The spectacle, too often seen, of shrinking from the presence of Christ, is one I can not begin to understand.
Whatever slow, unending work lay in them, whatever hungry loneliness they held for her heart, or coarseness of deed, she saw it all, shrinking from nothing.
But as time went on he was more and more aware that there was in him a peculiar shrinking from going back, an almost apprehension.
But since then the revolutionary or speculative mind of Europe has been weakened by shrinking from any proposal because of the limits of that proposal.

There had been some sort of bond between them till the vision of death rose before each shrinking soul.
Vesta was very pale, but neither shrinking nor negative.
His hands went out, though he had to force that invitation because in him there was a shrinking horror of this surrender.
Then very cautiously they approached the fire, shrinking back and exhibiting signs of alarm at the fierce heat it threw out, as they approached near to it.
Other tasks, no less vital, still remain to be carried, in the course of a fast shrinking period, to a successful conclusion.
In reaction to the sensitive, shrinking mood of the previous day, a spirit of defiance had taken possession of her.
No mask, no shrinking modesty can hide the individuality.
The Prince nodded a careless, haughty assent, shrinking a little, however, as Mr.
I felt no disgust, no shrinking, and mere conventional delicacy is withdrawn when the Angel of Death breathes upon it.
Again he drew nearer, not choosing to note the instinctive stiffening of her figure, the shrinking look in her eyes.
Then tighten it by shrinking and finally give it at least three coats of a mixture of varnish and paint.
The fact that I have sacrificed my human appearance in the Great Cause cannot overcome the shrinking aversion that normal men would feel, if they could see me.
The morbid Flaubertian shrinking from reality is to be found to-day even in relatively robust minds.
She may have been often annoyed by the attentions of men at periods when their attention was not welcome, and in this case the action is one of shrinking and avoidance.
Psamatik, moreover, was an old man by the time that the Assyrian Empire fell to pieces, and we can understand his shrinking from a distant and dangerous expedition.
Every day Archie grew weaker, while Bessie watched over and tended him with anguish in her heart and a terrible shrinking from the future when he would be gone forever.
He looked as if petrified with wonder, but he followed now without shrinking.

Similar words containing SHRINK without suffix ing

shrink13 shrinks14 shrinker15 nonshrink16 preshrink18 shrinkage17 shrinkers16 preshrinks19 shrinkable19 shrinkages18 shrinkpack25 shrinkingly22 shrinkpacks26 unshrinking19 headshrinker23 preshrinking22 unshrinkable21 headshrinkers24 nonshrinkable22 unshrinkingly24 shrinkflation23 shrinkflations24

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