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to shorten; to reduce; to condense; to shrink

to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle

to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs); to duck (one's head)

to shorten; to narrow; to close; to shrink

to shrink; to contract; to diminish (in size)

contraction; shrinking; shrinkage; constriction; deflation

compression

condensing; shortening; summarizing

Computing

compression (of data)

shortening; contraction; reduction; curtailment; abbreviation

withering; shrivelling; shrinking

Medicine

contraction; atrophy

condensation (of ideas, emotions, etc.); concentration

Physics

condensation (of a vapour or gas)

reduction; curtailment; cut; cutback; scaling down; contraction; shrinkage

Common noun

wearing armour (armor)

Suffix; Counter

counter for suits of armour

to curl oneself up; to squeeze oneself in; to be huddled

concentration (e.g. of a solution); enrichment; condensation

expansion and contraction; elasticity; flexibility

reduced drawing; miniature copy

microcosm; microcosmos

to be wavy; to be curled; to be frizzled

(silk) crepe; crape

elasticity

reduced scale; scaling down

Abbreviation

reduction of armaments; disarmament

shrinkage

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

cotton crepe

curly hair; kinky hair; frizzy hair

implosion

Intransitive verb

tightening; shrinkage; contraction; constriction

(economic) curtailment; retrenchment; austerity; cutting down (on spending)

wincing; cowering; shrinking; flinching; recoiling