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Shrinkage
  1. noun - process or result of becoming less or smaller; "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage"
  2. the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store; "shrinkage is the retail trade's euphemism for shoplifting"
  3. the amount by which something shrinks
Shrinking
  1. verb - become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"
  2. decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
  3. draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
  4. process or result of becoming less or smaller; "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage"
  5. reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"
  6. the act of becoming less
  7. wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"
Shrivalty
  1. - Shrievalty.
Shriveled
  1. adjective - (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines"
  2. 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"
  3. 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"
Sibilance
  1. unknown - a hissing sound - from sibilant
Sibilancy
  1. - The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation.
Sibilants
  1. noun - a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)
Sibilated
  1. verb - express or utter with a hiss
  2. make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval
  3. pronounce with an initial sibilant
  4. utter a sibilant
Sibilates
  1. verb - express or utter with a hiss
  2. make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval
  3. pronounce with an initial sibilant
  4. utter a sibilant
Siciliana
  1. unknown - An old dance or tune in six-beat or twelve-beat time