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 |
It shrank at an annualized rate of 1.2% in the third quarter, according to government data published Wednesday.
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.
Civil liberties in Nicaragua have shrunk dramatically under the longtime leadership of authoritarian president Daniel Ortega, who claimed a fifth term in 2021.