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Meaning
noun a physician who specializes in psychiatry
verb wither, as with a loss of moisture
verb draw back, as with fear or pain
originFrom Middle English schrynken, from Old English sċrincan, from Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną. Cognate with Dutch schrinken (“to shrink”). The sense “psychologist, psychotherapist” is a clipping of head-shrinker.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0