shrink up

English

Verb

shrink up (third-person singular simple present shrinks up, present participle shrinking up, simple past shrank up, past participle shrunk up)

  1. (intransitive) To contract or shrink completely; shrivel up.
    • 1852, Melville, Pierre, Book 3:
      Then, at the blast of his noble heart, the bad angel shrunk up into nothingness; and the good one defined itself clearer and more clear, and came nigher and more nigh to him, smiling sadly but benignantly […]
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