As glass cools, it shrinks and solidifies. As the glue hardens it shrinks, chipping the glass. The more one pulls, the more the circumference shrinks and the trap tightens. After committing her to Arkham Asylum, Palmer shrinks himself to microscopic size and disappears. While tampering with the shrink ray, Wayne accidentally shrinks himself, Diane, Gordon, and Patti. As the river's delta expands, the lagoon shrinks. An astringent (sometimes called adstringent) is a chemical that shrinks or constricts body tissues. Upon drying, wood shrinks and its density increases. A high unemployment rate shrinks UI tax revenues and increases expenditures on benefits. This is an explanation as to why wood swells and shrinks. As a result, the lesion shrinks in size, turns brown, and appears wrinkled. He contended that an economy begins to decline as its wealth-producing sector shrinks. When heat is applied, it shrinks tightly over whatever it is covering. Using his new Minimizer, he shrinks everyone down to minuscule size. Once defeated, he shrinks down to normal size.