shrink
verb (used without object)
to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance.
unshrinking
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a word derived from
shrink.
Example Sentences
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It is an unshrinking representation of the artist’s full existence—himself, where he lived, where he worked—which acknowledges that even in his success, life wasn’t without its occasional messiness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Out of that misery came the unshrinking “Case History,” for which Mikhailov photographed Kharkiv’s most desperate people and printed them at billboard size.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
In Cleveland, an unshrinking force will meet an unvarying object.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 25, 2020
But The Fall - basically Mark E Smith and whoever he hadn't fallen out with at the time - remained belligerently immoveable as the unfashionable but unshrinking mob in the shadows of the music scene.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2018
Christina was not at all surprised, though there was something so horrible in this unshrinking frankness from one so reticent, so delicate as Milly.
From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
