shrinking — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. Shy and retiring.

Sostantivo

1. The act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away.

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   […] the silent grief beyond the power of words—the generous consolations of the noble sister—the shrinkings of the poor criminal, and his relapsings into a gentler penitence […]

   The notion of a gently-nurtured girl being at the mercy of that fiend incarnate […] was one which caused me tangible shrinkings of the body.

Sostantivo

1. process or result of becoming less or smaller

   Sinonimi

   shrinkage

   Termini più generali

   decreaselesseningdrop-off

   Esempi

   the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage

2. the act of becoming less

   Termini più generali

   decreasediminutionreductionstep-down