shrink

Noun

• a physician who specializes in psychiatry

Verb

• decrease in size, range, or extent
  • His earnings shrank
    
  • My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me
    

• become smaller or draw together
  • The fabric shrank
    
  • The balloon shrank
    

• reduce in size; reduce physically
  • Hot water will shrink the sweater
    
  • Can you shrink this image?
    

• draw back, as with fear or pain
  • she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf
    

• wither, as with a loss of moisture
  • The fruit dried and shriveled
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  psychiatrist , head-shrinker , shrivel , contract , reduce , flinch , squinch , funk , cringe , wince , recoil , quail , shrivel up , wither
• Antonyms: 
  expand , spread out , stretch