shrinker
English
noun
Definitions
- Something that makes something else shrink.
- (slang) A psychiatrist; a head-shrinker.
- (medicine) A sock-like article used to compress a stump remaining after amputation.
- One who shrinks or recoils.
- Something that itself shrinks.
Etymology
Suffix from English shrink.
Origin
English
shrink
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antishrink English
- forshrink English
- head English
- headshrink English
- headshrinker English
- nonshrink English
- preshrink English
- reshrink English
- shrink English
- shrinkability English
- shrinkable English
- shrinkage English
- shrinkest English
- shrinketh English
- shrinking English
- shrinkproof English
- shrinkwrap English
- shrinky English
- unshrink English
- shrinken Middle English