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

Going into the weekend, the Cubs are now eight games behind the Brewers for the division lead, and their chances of winning the division have shrunk from 73% on June 1 to 9.3% today. —Jared Wyllys, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025

A little farther south, I-35W currently shrinks from three to two southbound lanes at Texas 174, with two exit lanes from the freeway. —Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Aug. 2025

Their National League West lead has shrunk from nine games to four in a week. —Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 12 July 2025

Instead, Canada has shrunk from the foreign stage, while its relationship with the U.S. has increasingly become a mercantile one, based on the free trade deals that have defined the modern relationship. —Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2025

Rhymes for shrink from

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