shrink from

phrasal verb

shrank from or shrunk from; shrunk from or shrunken from; shrinking from; shrinks from

: to try to avoid (something difficult or unpleasant) : to be unwilling to do (something)

He doesn't shrink from telling the truth, no matter how painful it may be.

She won't shrink from the task.

Examples of shrink from in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Jenny Hubbard, president of the Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary in Newtown, was concerned to hear recently that the sanctuary’s apiary with one million honey bees shrank from 17 hives to just two this winter. —Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2025

The working-age population (ages 14 to 64) is expected to shrink from 70 to 64 percent by 2040, posing a long-term drag on the world's second-largest economy. —William Lambers, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2025

Patient counts have shrunk from a high of five million and 900 clinics in the 1990s to 2.1 million patients and 600 clinics today. —Katie Benner, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025

Under the proposal, the number of repayment plans would shrink from roughly a dozen to just two. —Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025

Rhymes for shrink from

• become
• checksum
• humdrum
• income
• outcome
• succumb
• therefrom
• wherefrom
• abomasum
• bum
• chum
• come