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Winch :: Winch (v. i.) To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.

Warp :: Warp (v. i.) To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in seasoning or shrinking..

Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To become contracted; to shrink.

Recoil :: Recoil (n.) A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood..

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

Lessen :: Lessen (v. i.) To become less; to shrink; to contract; to decrease; to be diminished; as, the apparent magnitude of objects lessens as we recede from them; his care, or his wealth, lessened..

Wither :: Wither (v. t.) To cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture..

Cringe :: Cringe (v. t.) To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.

Dastard :: Dastard (a.) Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly.

Unflinching :: Unflinching (a.) Not flinching or shrinking; unyielding.

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

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..

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

Bashful :: Bashful (a.) Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression..

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink..

Shrink :: Shrink (v. i.) To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted..

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

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..

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

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