## Meanings
1. To become smaller in size or amount.
2. To make something smaller.
3. To move back or away from something out of fear or dislike.
4. An informal word for a psychiatrist or therapist.

## Examples
- This garment will shrink if you wash it in hot water.
- The dryer shrank my favourite sweater.
- The child shrank away from the barking dog.
- My friend has been seeing a shrink for her anxiety.

## Antonyms
- enlarge
- expand
- grow
- stretch

## Derived Forms
- antishrink
- head-shrinker
- headshrink
- nonshrink
- nonshrinkable
- nonshrinking
- overshrink
- preshrink
- reshrink
- shrink-swell
- shrink-wrap
- shrink-wrapped

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *(s)ker- (turn)
- Root: schrynken
- Root: sċrincan
- Root: *skrinkwaną

## Etymology
From Middle English schrynken, from Old English sċrincan, from Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną. Cognate with Dutch schrinken (“to shrink”). The sense “psychologist, psychotherapist” is a clipping of head-shrinker.

## AI Etymology
Shrink is from Middle English schrynken, from Old English sċrincan, from Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną. Cognate with Dutch schrinken (“to shrink”). The sense “psychologist, psychotherapist” is a clipping of head-shrinker. Important forms in the word's history include Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (turn), Middle English schrynken, Old English sċrincan, Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną. In current use it includes senses such as To become smaller in size or amount and To make something smaller.

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