shrink

Object

• violet: Maureen, the shrinking violet, commands most of the laughs.
• sleeving: Ensure the connections are well insulated with heat shrink sleeving as short circuits must be avoided.
• wrap: Superintendent Paul Sims said: " The main cost savings have come from the removal of shrink wrap from the internal supply loop process.
• wrapping: Examples might be shrink wrapping or plastic sheeting firmly covering the package or packages.
• fibroid: This is only a temporary treatment, normally used to shrink the fibroids prior to surgery.
• tumor: The aim of PDT for advanced cancer is usually to reduce symptoms by shrinking the tumor.

Modifying Another Word

• magically: In an act of justice, the wizard ant Zoc magically shrinks Lucas to the size of an ant.
• visibly: X looks at the offender, who visibly shrinks in size.
• drastically: I've drastically shrunk the amount of code for this page, which should mean it'll load faster.
• steadily: To further complicate matters, these formats have been steadily shrinking in size to make them more suitable for use inside handsets.
• dramatically: The number of people working in the offline industry has shrunk dramatically over the past 20 years.
• rapidly: In the last 5 years the majority were actually shrinking rapidly.

Followed by an intransitive particle

down: You have shrunk down to the size of a chip.

Used with why or when

when: So why are the churches shrinking when, someone might say, the fields are white unto harvest?

Infinitive complement

• zero: For the distance to Andromeda will have shrunk to zero for the spacecraft.
• fit: The bitmap is stretched or shrunk to fit the window.

Present participle complement

wrap: It makes your DVD case look like a shrink wrapped case without the need for shrink wrapping equipment!

Preposition: in

• wash: The jumper which shrunk in the wash back to its usual size.
• size: X looks at the offender, who visibly shrinks in size.

Preposition: by

percent: The dolls had immediately become the reality, and normal scale had magically shrunk by fifty percent.