Crossword-Solution: SHRANK
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Shrank | - | imp. of Shrink. |
| Shrank | imp. | of Shrink |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SHRANK | anagram | HANKSR |
We have 37 clues for the answer “SHRANK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Got smaller in the wash | 1 answer |
| Fared badly in a dryer | 1 answer |
| Didn't rise to the occasion | 1 answer |
| Got shorter | 1 answer |
| Grew smaller | 1 answer |
| Opposite of expanded | 1 answer |
| Quailed | 1 answer |
| Shouldn't have been in the dryer, maybe | 1 answer |
| U-turn from expanded | 1 answer |
| Succeeded on a crash diet? | 1 answer |
| Shouldn't have been in the dryer? | 1 answer |
| Shouldn't have been in the dryer, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Shied away (from) | 1 answer |
| Cowered | 2 answers |
| Drew up | 2 answers |
| Shied away | 2 answers |
| Drew back (from). | 2 answers |
| Got smaller | 3 answers |
| Recoiled | 3 answers |
| Became smaller | 3 answers |
| Betrayed fear | 4 answers |
| Contradicted | 5 answers |
| Shriveled | 6 answers |
| DWINDLED | 6 answers |
| Downsized | 7 answers |
| Drew Back | 7 answers |
| Flinched | 7 answers |
| Diminished by | 10 answers |
| A TRIFLE SMALLER | 10 answers |
| A SMALLER NUMBER | 10 answers |
| A smaller amount | 10 answers |
| CRASH DIET | 11 answers |
| Withdrew | 12 answers |
| BECOME smaller | 16 answers |
| Reduced | 17 answers |
| Contracted | 28 answers |
| diminished | 31 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SHRANK (5)
Tall cantered along the bridle-path through Sixteen Acres, Sheeplands, Middle Field, The Flats, Cappel’s Piece, shrank almost to a point, crossed the bridge, and ascended from the valley through Springmead and Whitepits on the other side.
But if your superior culture gets leaky again—” He did not complete the sentence, but he twirled his gleaming axe so carelessly that the Woggle-Bug looked frightened, and shrank away to a safe distance.
Entirely unaccustomed to water except in quantities sufficient for drinking and bathing purposes the red Martians instinctively shrank from it in such formidable depths and menacing activity.
The next moment, without any visible cause for the change, her unwonted joy shrank back, appalled, as it were, and clothed itself in mourning; or it ran and hid itself, so to speak, in the dungeon of her heart, where it had long lain chained, while a cold, spectral sorrow took the place of the imprisoned joy, that was afraid to be enfranchised,—a sorrow as black as that was bright.
The woman shrank closer to the man in terror-stricken anticipation of the horrors lying in wait for them in the awful blackness of the nights to come, when they should be alone upon that wild and lonely shore.
Quotes with SHRANK (3)
Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on every side, and in the future. The silent darkness, the featureless unknown, were more dread than all the terrors that imagination had mustered. Peering, the mind could see nothing sure, nothing in all human experience to be grasped as certain, except uncertainty itself; nothing but obscurity gendered by a thick haze of theories. Man's science was a mere mist of numbers; his phil…
He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her — while he was jealous of her — while he renounced her — he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.
Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 31 times in crossword archives (1961–2025).