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Synonyms for shrink
The synonym for shrink recorded in this bank is reduce, in the sense "reduce in size". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for shrink
- reduceverb, in the sense "reduce in size"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day shrink is audited in a second meaning.
reduce in size
Can you shrink this image?
The true synonym
reduce
Same sentence, swapped: Can you reduce this image?
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for shrink in the sentence quoted.
- funk
- wither
- slack
Where shrink turns up in the game
shrink is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where shrink is the trap
- flareverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is widen, in the sense "to spread outward gradually, becoming wider at one end", with shrink sitting one tile away.
- burgeonverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is flourish, in the sense "to grow or develop rapidly", with shrink sitting one tile away.
- reduceverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is tighten, in the sense "narrow or limit", with shrink sitting one tile away.
- hesitateverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is waffle, in the sense "pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness", and shrink is on the board beside it.
Play shrink
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so shrink reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because change is the company shrink keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. shrink carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.