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Verb: shrink from
  1. Avoid (one's assigned duties)
    "The derelict soldier shrank from his duties";
    - fiddle, shirk, goldbrick [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: shrinking from, shrank from, shrunk from, shrinks from

Type of: avoid

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