Shrink

1. n. The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.
2. v. i. To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.
3. v. i. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
4. v. i. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake.
5. v. t. To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.
6. v. t. To draw back; to withdraw.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.