shrink up

verb

To contract or shrink completely; shrivel up.

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Meanings

verbshrink 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)

present singular third person shrinks up · participle present shrinking up · past shrank up · past shrunk up · participle past shrunk up · participle past shrunken up

  1. intransitivetransitiveTo 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

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