Shrinks is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHRINKS in dictionary:

VERB:
• SHRINK, to contract or draw back
• 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• become withdrawn.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

Words related to SHRINKS

shrank13 shrink13 shrinking17 shrunk13 shrunken15

Words that contain SHRINKS

preshrinks19

How to use SHRINKS in a sentence

• Cut them into rather thick slices, as the fruit shrinks very much in the boiling.
• My gratitude is weak, and shrinks beneath the weight, and cannot rise to thank you.
• He shrinks from the thought of death, of judgment, of God.
• Our fleet must in any case be so powerful that our strongest antagonist shrinks from attacking us without convincing reasons.
• Renan shrinks from solving such a question by the hypothesis of conscious fraud.
• Silently the secret of their life retreats and shrinks away and hides itself.
• It instinctively clings to the memory of a former happier time, and shrinks from the unknown future.
• But this requires a bold and active spirit, which shrinks not from responsibility, and is able to avail itself with quickness and decision of every opportunity.
• My heart shrinks from the thought of seeing any child of ours in the high places of this world.
• Those sights, from which human nature shrinks, appear to have been sought for by Selwyn with an eagerness resembling enjoyment.
• She shrinks from it but it is bound to be revealed.
• And a man may long to warm himself by fire, MacRae reflected gloomily, but he shrinks from being burned.
• Her lofty brow was pure as marble, and marked by that high look of moral and intellectual power, before which mere physical beauty shrinks into insignificance.
• When first I looked upon the face of Pain I shrank repelled, as one shrinks from a foe Who stands with dagger poised, as for a blow.
• Even a big vessel like the Kansas shrinks to small proportions when she is a mile or more distant at night.
• One shrinks from it as from some too poignant revelation.
• It honors him who goes forth amid the struggling elements to fight his battle, and who shrinks not, with cowardly effeminacy, behind pillows of ease.
• We dread we know not what, we fear we know not why, Our cheated fancy shrinks, nor sees to die Is but to slumber into immortality.
• At these moments delicate souls disclose themselves to each other, and it doubtless sometimes happens that the one shrinks back in fright from its acquaintance with the other.
• With vision calm, she sees her course, Nor shrinks, though thorny be the way.
• Naturally, she shrinks from speaking of that terrible time, but I understand that she spent no less than three nights alone in the mountains with him.
• And when the Spring comes, with her host Of flowers, that flower beloved the most Shrinks from the crowd that may confuse Her heavenly odour, and virgin hues.
• The grain shrinks very much during this process, but it is supposed to be less liable to the attacks of insects, and preserves its nutritive qualities for many years.
• Vice shrinks into disgrace, or flies to more congenial haunts.
• As a man who, in a mountain glen, suddenly sees a deadly snake and shrinks away from it with shaking limbs, even so did Paris shrink back among his comrades.
• The grace and charm of this poem come from regions beyond the range of literary criticism, and the heart shrinks from making a revelation of the emotions which it awakens.

Similar words containing SHRINK without suffix s

shrink13 shrinker15 nonshrink16 preshrink18 shrinkage17 shrinkers16 shrinking17 preshrinks19 shrinkable19 shrinkages18 shrinkpack25 shrinkingly22 shrinkpacks26 unshrinking19 headshrinker23 preshrinking22 unshrinkable21 headshrinkers24 nonshrinkable22 unshrinkingly24 shrinkflation23 shrinkflations24

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