"As the months dragged on, I saw him physically shrink," said an associate of Mr. Kovner who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

AM material is highly magnetostrictive, which means that when you put the tag material in a magnetic field, it physically shrinks.

They settled tensely down and even seemed to physically shrink.

The dog recoiled, physically shrinking away from the man's touch, crouching at last against the chair.

Brown's man, 7-1 David Robinson, seemed to physically shrink in the presence of the 25-year-old rookie from Georgetown, who is listed as just one inch bigger than Robinson.

I remember how you physically shrank away whenever he approached you.1 'Would you come with me?'

It was the same thing that made him physically shrink into his scarf and his leather jacket.

Julius physically shrank from Kirk's words.

Krouse appeared to physically shrink.

With prolonged suppression, the adrenal glands atrophy (physically shrink), and can take months to recover full function after discontinuation of the exogenous glucocorticoid.