'V from n' - Construction 5
| Name: | the shrink from construction |
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| Description: | A person does not want to do something or does not do it. |
| Verbs: | flinch, recoil, shirk, shrink, shy away |
| Example: | He still shrank from returning to England. (BNC) |
| Membership: | literal movement; reaction 'from'; reaction-mental |
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