shrink up

verb

shrink up

verb

1

To contract or shrink completely; shrivel up.

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 […]1852, Melville, Pierre, Book 3:

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