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Shrink Washing Hot Water Make Word ʃrɪŋk Wool

Front shrink
Pron [ʃrɪŋk]
Back 【SHRINK】
Washing wool in hot water will make it shrink.
再热水中洗羊毛衣将使它缩水。
【重点词汇】
shrink v. 萎缩 n. shrinkage
Vocab
shrinkwither, as with a loss of moisture

Shrink is the informal word you can use to talk about a therapist. Talking about your problems with her can hopefully help you shrink them, or make them smaller.

The word shrink is related to the Swedish skrynka meaning "to wrinkle." Think about what happens to a lone forgotten fruit at the bottom of your fridge drawer. After a while, it begins to wrinkle or shrink. Clothes washed in hot water tend to shrink, so be wary of the setting on your washing machine. The use of shrink as referring to therapists started as late as the 1960s — with the idea of a psychologist being a "head-shrinker."

All forms of 'shrink' will appear on average once every 188 pages.
shrink
shrinkable
shrinkage
shrinking
unshrinkable
unshrinking

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