Shrink

Definition

shrink /ʃrÇŋk/ v ( pt shrank /ʃræŋk/ or shrunk /ʃrʌŋk/; pp shrunk) ၁။ (က) အဝတ္စသည္ က်ံဳ႕သြားသည္၊ က်ံဳ႕ေစသည္။ Will this shirt shrink in the wash? ❍ The washing-machine shrank my sweater. (ခ) အရြယ္၊ ပမာဏ ငယ္သြား သည္၊ နည္းသြားသည္။ the shrinking countryside ❍ The workforce has shrunk from 20 000 to 6 000 in the past ten years. ၂။ ေနာက္တြန္႔သည္။ shrink back in horror ❍ She shrank trembling against the wall. n ( sl joc ) စိတ္ေရာဂါကုဆရာဝန္။ She sees her shrink once a week. ❏ shrinkage /'ʃrÇŋkÇdʒ/ n [U] (က) က်ံဳ႕ျခင္း။ အေရအတြက္ ေလ်ာ့က်ျခင္း။ buy a bigger size to allow for shrinkage ❍ There has been some shrinkage in our export trade. (ခ) ေဈးဆိုင္စသည္တြင္ အလစ္သုတ္ခံရသျဖင့္ အျမတ္အစြန္း ေလ်ာ့နည္းမႈ။ Shrinkage costs the retail industry about £1.8 billion a year. ❏ shrink from sth / doing sth [ PHRV ] ရင္ဆိုင္ရန္ ၊ လုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္ ေနာက္တြန္႔သည္။ There's no point in shrinking from the truth. ❍ He did not shrink from doing what was right. ❏ a shrinking violet [ IDM ] ( joc ) အလြန္ရွက္တတ္သူ။ She's no shrinking violet—always ready to speak up for herself. ❏ shrink-wrapped adj ပလတ္စတစ္ပါးျဖင့္ အသားကပ္ အလံုပိတ္ထားေသာ(စားဖြယ္၊ စာအုပ္ စသည္)။ shrink-wrapped cheese. ❏ shrunken /'ʃrʌŋkǝn/ adj က်ံဳ႕သြားေသာ။ ႐ံႈ႕သြားေသာ။ ပိန္ႀကံဳေနေသာ။ ေလ်ာ့နည္း၊ က်သြားေသာ။ an old, shrunken-apple ❍ shrunken cheeks ❍ the shrunken body of a starving child.

Examples

1. Do you think this dress will shrink if I handwash it?
2. Many people shrink in old age.
3. The treatment will shrink the tumour.
4. The company’s profit margins shrank from 32.5 per cent to 17 per cent.
5. [shrink rapidly/dramatically/fast] : Numbers of butterflies are shrinking rapidly as the environment changes.
6. The UN was urged to shrink its peacekeeping presence in Rwanda.
7. [shrink away/back] : He shrank away from her touch.