"shrink away" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "shrink + away",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shrinks away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shrinking away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shrank away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shrunk away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shrunk away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shrunken away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "shrink<,,shrank,shrunk> away",
        "past2": "shrunk away",
        "past_ptc2": "shrunken away"
      },
      "expansion": "shrink away (third-person singular simple present shrinks away, present participle shrinking away, simple past shrank away or shrunk away, past participle shrunk away or shrunken away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"away\"",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
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        {
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Esperanto translations",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To draw back in fear; cringe, back down, shy away."
      ],
      "id": "en-shrink_away-en-verb-4poovn4w",
      "links": [
        [
          "draw back",
          "draw back"
        ],
        [
          "cringe",
          "cringe"
        ],
        [
          "back down",
          "back down"
        ],
        [
          "shy away",
          "shy away"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "to draw back in fear; cringe, back down, shy away",
          "word": "retiriĝi foren"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shrink away"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "shrink + away",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shrinks away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shrinking away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shrank away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shrunk away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shrunk away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shrunken away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "shrink<,,shrank,shrunk> away",
        "past2": "shrunk away",
        "past_ptc2": "shrunken away"
      },
      "expansion": "shrink away (third-person singular simple present shrinks away, present participle shrinking away, simple past shrank away or shrunk away, past participle shrunk away or shrunken away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"away\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To draw back in fear; cringe, back down, shy away."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "draw back",
          "draw back"
        ],
        [
          "cringe",
          "cringe"
        ],
        [
          "back down",
          "back down"
        ],
        [
          "shy away",
          "shy away"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to draw back in fear; cringe, back down, shy away",
      "word": "retiriĝi foren"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shrink away"
}