Definition of "shrinking" []

• Possessing the property of reducing in size or significance. (adjective)
• Present participle of shrink. (verb)

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• "As to the man himself, there is a point at which virtue becomes vice, and vice versâ, and his pusillanimity in shrinking from the inconvenience and terrible disagreeableness of 'making a row' coincides with his good-nature."
• "She recalled his shrinking from the boys, and his hasty refusal to go to the homestead."
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