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shrinks up

shrinks up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shrink up.

Meaning of shrink up

Verb

shrink up (third-person singular simple present shrinks up, present participle shrinking up, simple past shrank up or shrunk up, past participle shrunk up or shrunken up)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To contract or shrink completely; shrivel up.
    • Then, at the blast of his noble heart, the bad angel shrunk up into nothingness; and the good one defined itself clearer and more clear, and came nigher and more nigh to him, smiling sadly but benignantly […]1852, Melville, Pierre, Book 3

Questions about shrinks up

What is shrinks up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Shrinks up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shrink up.

Words near shrinks up in the dictionary

  1. shrinkproofness
  2. shrinks
  3. shrinks away
  4. shrinks back
  5. shrinks down
  6. shrinks up
  7. shrinkwrap
  8. shrinkwrap license
  9. shrinkwrap licenses
  10. shrinkwrapped
  11. shrinkwrapping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shrinks up (page history and authors); shrink up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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