"ಕುಗ್ಗಿಸು" ಪದದ ನಿಘಂಟಿನ ಅರ್ಥವು ಅದನ್ನು ಬಳಸುವ ಸಂದರ್ಭವನ್ನು ಅವಲಂಬಿಸಿ ಬದಲಾಗಬಹುದು. ಕೆಲವು ಸಂಭವನೀಯ ವ್ಯಾಖ್ಯಾನಗಳು ಇಲ್ಲಿವೆ:
1. My entire body went tense, and I fought the urge to shrink back.
2. Hearing the laughter through the doors to the patio makes me shrink.
3. There was a pause, so I peeked around the shrink wrapped cans and found I had a partial view.
4. Eventually, they would take some turn at a crossroads and slowly shrink away while we forged onward down the main road.
5. I was starting to think maybe I needed to see a shrink.
6. Were death, or the fear of death, the only thing that stood in the way I would not shrink to die here, now, amidst the friends who love me.
7. Madison, my shrink, after the murder investigation blew over.
8. The man seemed to shrink into his sofa under their intense stares.
9. Sasha would think she needed to make an appointment with a shrink again.
10. She could just imagine how fast the department shrink would draw up those commitment papers.