shrink up

English

Verb

shrink up (third-person singular simple present shrinks up, present participle shrinking up, simple past shrank up or shrunk up, past participle shrunk up or shrunken up)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To contract or shrink completely; shrivel up.
   • 1852, Melville, Pierre, Book 3:

     Then, at the blast of his noble heart, the bad angel shrunk up into nothingness; and the good one defined itself clearer and more clear, and came nigher and more nigh to him, smiling sadly but benignantly […]