shrink

/ʃrɪŋk/

意味: 精神科医、小さくなること

例文: The shrink advised more cake therapy.
　　  精神科医は「もっとケーキ療法を」と助言した。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: shrink in size(サイズが縮む), shrink from(から縮む), shrink back(後退する)

定義: 物や体が小さくなることを指します。例えば、洗濯後に服が縮むことがあります。また、恐怖や不安から後退することも意味します。

shrinkは約200,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度 - 横向き棒グラフ

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析 レーダーチャート

感情グラフ: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a physician who specializes in psychiatry
Verb: wither, as with a loss of moisture
Verb: draw back, as with fear or pain
Verb: reduce in size; reduce physically
Verb: become smaller or draw together
Verb: decrease in size, range, or extent

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The sweater will shrink if washed in hot water.(セーターは熱い水で洗うと縮みます。)
Her confidence began to shrink after the criticism.(彼女の自信は批判で徐々に縮み始めた。)
The company plans to shrink its workforce next year.(会社は来年、従業員数を減らす予定です。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: The fruit dried and shriveled
Verb: she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf
Verb: Hot water will shrink the sweater
Verb: Can you shrink this image?
Verb: The fabric shrank
Verb: The balloon shrank
Verb: His earnings shrank
Verb: My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): contract, cringe, flinch, funk, head-shrinker, psychiatrist, quail, recoil, reduce, shrink, shrivel, shrivel up, squinch, wince, wither

Antonyms(反意語): expand, stretch

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): decrease, move, specialist

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): abate, abridge, anesthesiologist, arouse, assume, baby doctor, beat, bob, boil down, bolt, break, brush, buck, bustle, cant, cardiologist, careen, chiropodist, chop, churn, climb, close, crash, cut, cut to, dance, de-escalate, decelerate, decline, decrescendo, deflate, depreciate, dermatologist, diagnostician, diminish, diplomate, diverge, dodge, drop back, drop off, duck, dwindle, ear doctor, ease up, embryologist, endocrinologist, ent man, exit, falter, fidget, flex, flinch, fling, flip, flow, flurry, fly, gerontologist, get down, grab, gravitate, gynecologist, heave, hematologist, hit the dirt, hop, hop on, hygienist, internist, jerk, jolt, jump, limit, linger, list, lunge, lurch, make way, mill, minimize, mitigate, mope, move back and forth, move involuntarily, move over, neurologist, nod, obstetrician, oncologist, ophthalmologist, orthopedist, orthoptist, pare, proctologist, psychiatrist, pulsate, putter, quicken, radiographer, radiologist, reach, reciprocate, reduce, remit, rheumatologist, roll, run, seesaw, separate, shake, shorten, shrink, shrivel, sidle, slack, slake, slip, snap, spread, startle, steal, stir, streak, stretch, strike out, stumble, suppress, sweep, swoop, taper, teeter, thin out, throw, thunder, turn, turn down, urologist, vanish, vibrate, wallow, wamble, wane, weaken, whirl, wobble, writhe

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): alienist, analyst, atrophy, blast, contract, depopulate, die back, downsize, flex, miniaturize, mummify, reduce, reef, shrink back

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: contraction, flinch, psychiatry, reduction, shrinkage, shrinking, wince

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

英検準1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: fear, negative, sadness