shrink
verb (used without object)
to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance.
will have shrunk
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future perfectof shrink.future perfect
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
Example Sentences
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Ukraine expects its economy will have shrunk by roughly a third this year.
From Reuters ● Sep. 20, 2022
That's significant because a middle-aged black hole will have shrunk only modestly from its original size and should still be governed by the ordinary laws of physics.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 20, 2022
By the end of this year, the country’s gross domestic product will have shrunk by two-thirds since 2013, making it the largest economic collapse in a country outside of war since at least the 1970s.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2019
Eventually, the scale drops to zero, which means that space will have shrunk to an infinitely small size.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Upon this assumption of continuous contraction, a time should, however, eventually be reached when the sun will have shrunk to such a degree of solidity, that it will not be able to shrink any further.
From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage
