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

The irony was unmistakable: a man who barely spoke in interviews, who shrank from the stage, whose music sidestepped every commercial instinct of his time, was now the soundtrack to a car commercial. —arkansasonline.com, 5 July 2025

Leo: Dramatic, Magnetic, Iconic Leos are ruled by the sun and should never shrink from the spotlight. —Meghan Rose, Glamour, 4 June 2025

Environmental Protection Agency The Environmental Protection Agency's budget would shrink from $9.1 billion to $4.2 billion. —Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 10 May 2025

Manufacturing shrank from 22 percent to nine percent of nonfarm employment during that period. —Jennifer M. Harris, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025

Rhymes for shrink from

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