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shrink

/ʃrɪŋk/

US pronunciation
American sound/ʃrɪŋk/
shrink
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

US voice -> shrink

Myanmar meaning

(v) (က) အဝတ်စသည်ကျုံ့သွားသည်၊ကျုံ့စေသည်။ (ခ) အရွယ်၊ပမာဏငယ်သွားသည်၊နည်းသွားသည်။ နောက်တွန့်သည်။ စိတ်ရောဂါကုဆရာဝန်။ ကကျုံ့ခြင်း။ အရေအတွက်လျော့ကျခြင်း။ ခဈေးဆိုင်စသည်တွင်အလစ်သုတ်ခံရသဖြင့်အမြတ်အစွန်းလျော့နည်းမှု။ ရင်ဆိုင်ရန်၊လုပ်ဆောင်ရန်နောက်တွန့်သည်။ အလွန်ရှက်တတ်သူ။ ပလတ်စတစ်ပါးဖြင့်အသားကပ်အလုံပိတ်ထားသောစားဖွယ်၊စာအုပ်စသည်။ ကျုံ့သွားသော။ ရှုံ့သွားသော။ ပိန်ကြုံနေသော။ လျော့နည်း၊ကျသွားသော။

Full entry

shrink /ʃrÇŋk/ v (pt shrank /ʃræŋk/ or shrunk /ʃrʌŋk/; pp shrunk)

၁။ (က) အဝတ်စသည် ကျုံ့သွားသည်၊ ကျုံ့စေသည်။ Will this shirt shrink in the wash? ❍ The washing-machine shrank my sweater.
(ခ) အရွယ်၊ ပမာဏ ငယ်သွား သည်၊ နည်းသွားသည်။ the shrinking countryside ❍ The workforce has shrunk from 20 000 to 6 000 in the past ten years.
၂။ နောက်တွန့်သည်။ shrink back in horror ❍ She shrank trembling against the wall.
n (sl joc ) စိတ်ရောဂါကုဆရာဝန်။ She sees her shrink once a week.
❏ shrinkage /'ʃrÇŋkÇdʒ/ n [U] (က) ကျုံ့ခြင်း။ အရေအတွက် လျော့ကျခြင်း။ buy a bigger size to allow for shrinkage ❍ There has been some shrinkage in our export trade.
(ခ) ဈေးဆိုင်စသည်တွင် အလစ်သုတ်ခံရသဖြင့် အမြတ်အစွန်း လျော့နည်းမှု။ Shrinkage costs the retail industry about £1.8 billion a year.
❏ shrink from sth / doing sth [PHRV ] ရင်ဆိုင်ရန် ၊ လုပ်ဆောင်ရန် နောက်တွန့်သည်။ There's no point in shrinking from the truth. ❍ He did not shrink from doing what was right.
❏ a shrinking violet [IDM ] (joc ) အလွန်ရှက်တတ်သူ။ She's no shrinking violet—always ready to speak up for herself.
❏ shrink-wrapped adj ပလတ်စတစ်ပါးဖြင့် အသားကပ် အလုံပိတ်ထားသော(စားဖွယ်၊ စာအုပ် စသည်)။ shrink-wrapped cheese.
❏ shrunken /'ʃrʌŋkǝn/ adj ကျုံ့သွားသော။ ရှုံ့သွားသော။ ပိန်ကြုံနေသော။ လျော့နည်း၊ ကျသွားသော။ an old, shrunken-apple ❍ shrunken cheeks ❍ the shrunken body of a starving child.

More examples
  • Do you think this dress will shrink if I handwash it?
  • Many people shrink in old age.
  • The treatment will shrink the tumour.
  • The company’s profit margins shrank from 32.5 per cent to 17 per cent.
  • [shrink rapidly/dramatically/fast] : Numbers of butterflies are shrinking rapidly as the environment changes.
  • The UN was urged to shrink its peacekeeping presence in Rwanda.
  • [shrink away/back] : He shrank away from her touch.
Synonyms
get smaller, reduce in size, contract, shrivel, disappear, telescope, minimize, blenched, boggled, compressed, concentrated, condensed, constricted, contracted, cowered, cringed, crouched, declined, decreased, deflated, demurred, diminished, disappeared, doctored, dropped, dwindled, failed, fell, flinched, groveled, huddled, lessened, minimized, narrowed, quailed, receded, recoiled, reduced, refused, retired, retreated, scrupled, shortened, shriveled, shuddered, slunk, telescoped, waned, wasted, weakened, winced, withdrew, withered, wrinkled
Antonyms
accepted, advanced, allowed, consented, developed, enlarged, expanded, extended, faced, forged, grew, increased, lengthened, loosened, met, raised, rose, strengthened, stretched
Cross references
get smallerreduce in sizecontractshriveldisappeartelescopeminimizeblenchedboggledcompressedconcentratedcondensedconstrictedcontractedcoweredcringedcroucheddeclineddecreaseddeflateddemurreddiminisheddisappeareddoctoreddroppeddwindledfailedfell
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