Synonyms: decrease, diminish, drop, fall, reduce, dwindle, ease
Conjugation
| Indicative mood |
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| Present tense | Past tense |
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| (it) shrinks, shrinketh | (it) shrank |
| Subjunctive mood |
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| Present tense | Past tense |
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| (it) shrink | (it) shrank |
| Participles |
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| Present participle | Past participle |
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| shrinking | shrunken |
The government’s spending watchdog said in November that the UK economy is on course to shrink by 11.3 per cent in 2020, the biggest contraction in 300 years.
It shrank at an annualized rate of 1.2% in the third quarter, according to government data published Wednesday.