"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"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"away\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "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"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "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",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "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"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shrink away"
}