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.
To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.
Noun
a physician who specializes in psychiatry
Verb
decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
Verb
become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"
Verb
reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
Verb
wither, especially with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"
Verb
draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
v. i.
To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to
contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become
compacted.
v. i.
To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action
from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
v. i.
To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the
body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake.
v. t.
To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by
imersing it in boiling water.
v. t.
To draw back; to withdraw.
n.
The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil;
withdrawal.
Shrink
And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay.
I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room.
Against this fire do I shrink up.
And shrink like parchment in consuming fire.
All the boards did shrink.2.
What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right.
They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task.3.
Shrink
The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn.
Shrink
Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise.
To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.
To cause to contract or shrink;
The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.
Usage Examples
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.
Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
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Other Usage ExamplesWe don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill to end the bailouts cut spending and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.
We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.
A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
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