Meaning

5 senses
  1. Something that makes something else shrink.

  2. (slang)A psychiatrist; a head-shrinker.

  3. A sock-like article used to compress a stump remaining after amputation.

  4. One who shrinks or recoils.

  5. Something that itself shrinks.

Origin

From shrink + -er.

From shrink + -er.

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Forms

plural: shrinkers
Singularshrinker
Pluralshrinkers

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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