v
(obsolete, transitive) To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken.
n
(botany) The tapering of a leaf etc to a fine point.
v
(transitive) To cause constipation in.
adj
Made smaller by contraction.
v
To shrink or shrivel from exposure to heat.
adj
shortened, having been shortened
v
(intransitive) To become cute
v
(transitive) To remove the fangs from (something).
v
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become less hard (resistant to pressure).
v
(transitive) To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
v
(obsolete) To scatter, disperse.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To scatter; to sprinkle
v
(intransitive, of viscera) To protrude through a surgical incision.
v
(transitive) To disembowel; to eviscerate.
v
(obsolete) to shrink and reduce in quality or value; to become exiguous
n
A cessation, extinction, ending
n
(art) A technique of painting young women, by having their clothes fade into the background.
adj
Utterly shrunk; entirely shrunk up.
n
(colloquial) The practice, among manufacturers, of gradually reducing the physical size of grocery items so as to increase profits.
n
(slang) A psychiatrist or psychotherapist; a shrink.
n
(slang, humorous) A psychiatrist.
n
Alternative form of head-shrinker [(slang) A psychiatrist or psychotherapist; a shrink.]
n
(medicine) A solid, immobile bulk of stool.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.
v
(geology) To become thinner towards the edges.
v
(intransitive) To be discouraged.
adj
(tools) dulled or intentionally blunt.
v
To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
adj
(medicine) Serving to force the contents to move in a rapid outflow.
adj
(cooking) Of a sauce etc.: made more concentrated.
n
The act by which something is sharpened.
n
(slang, sometimes derogatory) A psychiatrist or psychotherapist.
v
(intransitive) To contract or shrink completely; shrivel up.
n
The act of shrinking, or the proportion by which something shrinks.
n
(slang) A female shrink (psychiatrist or psychotherapist).
n
(economics, informal, neologism) The practice of making products smaller while continuing to market them at the same price.
adj
(informal) Characteristic of a shrink (psychologist).
n
One who, or that which, shrivels.
v
(dialectal) To shrink, shrivel.
v
(intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To make thin or rare; to rarefy.
v
(intransitive) To become sparse.
v
To reverse the process of glossing; to make explicit what has been glossed over.
v
(transitive) To resolve (a problematic situation).
v
(transitive, imaging, graphics) To sharpen (an image) by creating a blurred ("unsharp") negative as a mask, and then combining that mask with the original.
n
Something that waxes (grows larger, as opposed to waning).
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