Verb
(third-person singular simple present forshrink, present participle forshrinking, simple past forshrank, past participle forshrunk or forshrunken)
- (intransitive, archaic) To shrink up; dry up; wither.
Origin
From Middle English forshrinken, from Old English forscrincan (“to shrink up, dry up, wither away”), equivalent to for- + shrink.
