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Exact Match:

shrinking

the act of becoming less

process or result of becoming less or smaller; "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage"

Synonyms:

• Olympian,
• Sanforizing,
• aloof,
• aseptic,
• atrophy,
• attenuation,
• backward,
• bashful,
• bashfulness,
• blank,
• boggle,
• boggling,
• chilled,
• chilly,
• cold,
• compunction,
• constrained,
• consumption,
• cool,
• cowardly,
• declining,
• demur,
• demurral,
• demurring,
• detached,
• diffidence,
• diffident,
• diminishing,
• discreet,
• distant,
• drying,
• drying up,
• dwindling,
• dying,
• ebbing,
• emaceration,
• emaciation,
• expressionless,
• fading,
• falter,
• faltering,
• fearful,
• fearing,
• fearsome,
• forbidding,
• frigid,
• frosty,
• goosy,
• guarded,
• hesitance,
• hesitancy,
• hesitant,
• hesitating,
• hesitation,
• icy,
• impassive,
• impersonal,
• in fear,
• inaccessible,
• introverted,
• jumpy,
• modest,
• modesty,
• mousy,
• nervous,
• objection,
• offish,
• parching,
• pause,
• preshrinkage,
• protest,
• qualm,
• qualm of conscience,
• qualmish,
• qualmishness,
• quiet,
• rabbity,
• receding,
• recoil,
• remote,
• removed,
• repressed,
• reserved,
• restrained,
• reticent,
• retiring,
• retreating,
• scary,
• scruple,
• scrupulosity,
• scrupulous,
• scrupulousness,
• searing,
• shaky,
• shivery,
• shrinkage,
• shriveling,
• shy,
• shyness,
• sinking,
• skittery,
• skittish,
• squeamish,
• standoff,
• standoffish,
• startlish,
• stickling,
• subdued,
• suppressed,
• thinning,
• timid,
• timorous,
• trembling,
• tremulous,
• trepidant,
• trigger-happy,
• unaffable,
• unapproachable,
• uncongenial,
• undemonstrative,
• unexpansive,
• ungenial,
• waning,
• wasting,
• withdrawn,
• withering