shrink from

phrasal verb

shrank from or shrunk from; shrunk from or shrunken from; shrinking from; shrinks from

: to try to avoid (something difficult or unpleasant) : to be unwilling to do (something)

He doesn't shrink from telling the truth, no matter how painful it may be.

She won't shrink from the task.

Examples of shrink from in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

SoftBank’s piece of the round would shrink from $30 billion to $20 billion, while contributions by the remaining syndicate of investors, including Microsoft, would remain at $10 billion, the person said. —Hayden Field,kate Rooney, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025

Application completion rates surged from 50% to 85%, and the hiring timeline shrank from 12 days to just 4—keeping restaurants fully staffed during peak demand. —Keith Ferrazzi, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025

But the narrator shrinks from Solanas’s attempts to discuss feminist theory. —Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025

The electric vehicle company’s market share shrunk from 14.6% to 9.4% during the same time frame. —Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025

Rhymes for shrink from

• become
• checksum
• humdrum
• income
• outcome
• succumb
• therefrom
• wherefrom
• abomasum
• bum
• chum
• come