Meaning of shrink away | Babel Free

Definitions

To draw back in fear; cringe, back down, shy away.

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Examples

“But Tommy was bashful, and the attention he had thus drawn upon himself made him blush. He was a timid lad and he shrank away now, evidently fearing Shell.”

“Emily could be fearless enough on occasion; but in the presence of a nature which she instinctively felt to be hostile to hers she shrank away in something that was more repulsion than fear.”

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