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Crimple :: Crimple (v. t.) To cause to shrink or draw together; to contract; to curl.

Dwindle :: Dwindle (v. i.) To diminish; to become less; to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away.

Flinch :: Flinch (v. i.) To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat..

Shrink :: Shrink (v. t.) To draw back; to withdraw.

Wrinkle :: Wrinkle (n.) A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth..

Fulling :: Fulling (n.) The process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure..

Shrivel :: Shrivel (v. i.) To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up..

Shrink :: Shrink (v. i.) To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake..

Rivel :: Rivel (v. t.) To contract into wrinkles; to shrivel; to shrink; as, riveled fruit; riveled flowers..

Coy :: Coy (v. i.) To behave with reserve or coyness; to shrink from approach or familiarity.

Shrinker :: Shrinker (n.) One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.

Coy :: Coy (a.) Shrinking from approach or familiarity; reserved; bashful; shy; modest; -- usually applied to women, sometimes with an implication of coquetry..

Shrinking :: Shrinking () a. & n. from Shrink.

Collapse :: Collapse (v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses..

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold..

Funk :: Funk (v. i.) To be frightened, and shrink back; to flinch; as, to funk at the edge of a precipice..

Revolt :: Revolt (v. t.) To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings..

Blencher :: Blencher (n.) One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back..

Shrink :: Shrink (v. t.) To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water..

Dastard :: Dastard (n.) One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon.

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