shrink from

Questions about shrink from

What does shrink from mean?

shrink from means "avoid (one's assigned duties)".

What is another word for shrink from?

Close synonyms include fiddle, shirk, goldbrick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shrink from a common word?

shrink from is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.