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Shrining
- verb - enclose in a shrine; "the saint's bones were enshrined in the cathedral"
Shrinker
- - One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.
Shrunken
- verb - become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"
- decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
- draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
- lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"
- reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
- reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power"
- wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shrivele
Shunning
- verb - avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
- deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening
- expel from a community or group
Sickness
- noun - defectiveness or unsoundness; "drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure"; "a great sickness of his judgment"
- impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
- the state that precedes vomiting
Siennese
- - Of or pertaining to Sienna, a city of Italy.
Silenced
- verb - cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!"
- keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure; "All dissenters were silenced when the dictator assumed power"
- reduced to silence; "the silenced crowd waited expectantly"
Silencer
- noun - a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise
- short tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firing
Silences
- noun - a refusal to speak when expected; "his silence about my contribution was surprising"
- cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!"
- keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure; "All dissenters were silenced when the dictator assumed power"
- the absence of sound;
- the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking); "there was a shocked silence"; "he gestured for silence"
- the trait of keeping things secret
Silently
- adverb - without speaking; "he sat mutely next to her"