In dictionaries:
shrinking from
Avoiding or withdrawing due to fear.
shrinking violet
Timid person avoiding attention or notice.
shrinking violets
Timid people avoiding attention or spotlight.
shrinking space
In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to have the shrinking property or to be a shrinking space if every open cover admits a shrinking.
shrinking head
Reducing skull size, often ritualistic.
shrinking into
Becoming smaller and entering into.
The Incredible Shrinking Man
a 1957 American science fiction film directed by Jack Arnold, based on Richard Matheson's 1956 novel, The Shrinking Man.
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
a 1981 American science-fiction comedy film directed by Joel Schumacher (in his cinematic directing debut), written by Jane Wagner and starring Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, John Glover, and Elizabeth Wilson.
The Shrinking Man
a science fiction novel by American writer Richard Matheson, published in 1956.
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