Crossword-Solution: SHRINKS 7 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Brings down to size 1 answer
Doctors like Hannibal Lecter, informally 1 answer
Freud, et al. 1 answer
Gets littler 1 answer
Gets smaller, as a sweater 1 answer
Head analysts? 1 answer
Headmasters? 1 answer
Psychiatrists, slangily 1 answer
Reacts, like a washed sweater 1 answer
Turns tiny 1 answer
Head docs? 2 answers
Recoils 5 answers
Draws back 7 answers
Contracts. 12 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EAECZM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SHRINKS (5)

And if he shrinks, let him reflect that thus Confessing he shall ’scape the capital charge; For the worst penalty that shall befall him Is banishment—unscathed he shall depart.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
Had Clifford attained the balcony, he would probably have leaped into the street; but whether impelled by the species of terror that sometimes urges its victim over the very precipice which he shrinks from, or by a natural magnetism, tending towards the great centre of humanity, it were not easy to decide.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
There was no record in his psychological profiles, those from the Agency shrinks, that suggested Miles meant anything other than what he claimed.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
The soul is a still more tender organism than the body, and it shrinks from the prospect of being subjected to violence.
Confidence Henry James 2006
Slavery shrinks from the light; it hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest its deeds should be reproved.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1995

Quotes with SHRINKS (3)

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin
Here's what I think, Mr. Wind-Up Bird," said May Kasahara. "Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What I'd really like to do is find a way to communicate that feeling to another person. But I can't seem to do …
Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
There appears to be a fifth way, that of eminence. According to this I argue that it is incompatible with the idea of a most perfect being that anything should excel it in perfection (from the corollary to the fourth conclusion of the third chapter) . Now there is nothing incompatible about a finite thing being excelled in perfection; therefore, etc. The minor is proved from this, that to be infinite is not incompatible with being; but the infinite is greater than any finite …
John Duns Scotus
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Used 16 times in crossword archives (1960–2016).