/ʃrɪŋk/

(pt shrank, pp shrunk)

• 1  vi./vt. [become/make smaller] txikiagotu, laburtu; [clothes] urak hartu

  my sweater shrank in the wash: jertsea garbitzean txikiagotu egin da

• 2  vi./vt. [diminish, reduce] murriztu, gutxitu; txikiagotu

• 3  vi. [recoil] atzera egin

• 4  vi. [be reluctant] kikildu, uzkurtu

  he did not shrink from touching the spider: armiarma ukitzeko orduan ez zen kikildu