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To draw back in fear, cringe, back down.
From shrink + away.
From Wiktionary
When he reached for his knife, it was all I could do not to shrink away from him.
She wanted to shrink away and hide.
The children who crowd these grimy alleys, half-clad and underfed, shrink away from your outstretched hand as if from a blow.
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