shrank

For the verb: "to shrink"

Simple Past: shrank
Past Participle: shrunk
Multiple Entries:
  shrank    shrink  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shrank/ʃraŋk/
past of shrink.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shrink/ʃrɪŋk/
verb (past shrank; past part. shrunk or (especially as adj.) shrunken)
  • 1 become or make smaller in size or amount; contract.

    ■ (of clothes or material) become smaller as a result of being immersed in water.

  • 2 move back or away in fear or disgust.

    ■ (shrink from) be unwilling to do (something).

noun informal a psychiatrist.
– derivatives
shrinkable adjective,
shrinker noun.
– origin OE scrincan, of Gmc origin; the noun is from headshrinker.
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