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shrunk back

shrunk back is the simple past of shrink back.

shrunk back is the past participle of shrink back.

Meaning of shrink back

Verb

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

  1. To back away or retreat; to abandon an effort.
    Synonyms:
    shrink away

Questions about shrunk back

What is shrunk back the simple past of?
Shrunk back is the simple past of shrink back.

Words near shrunk back in the dictionary

  1. Shrums
  2. shrund
  3. shrunds
  4. shrunk
  5. shrunk away
  6. shrunk back
  7. shrunk down
  8. shrunk up
  9. shrunken
  10. shrunken away
  11. shrunken back

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shrunk back (page history and authors); shrink back (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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