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shrinking

verb
/ˈʃɹɪŋkɪŋ/US

Etymology

From shrink + -ing.

  1. inherited from *skrinkwaną✻
  2. inherited from sċrincan
  3. inherited from schrynken
  4. suffixed as shrinking — “shrink + ing”

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of shrink

  2. Shy and retiring.

  3. The act of one who, or that which, shrinks

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

    • […] 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at shrinking. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at shrinking. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at shrinking

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA