rétrécir

Ils rétrécissaient des tubes à vide, les rendant de plus en plus petits.
They were shrinking vacuum tubes, making them smaller and smaller.
Même ses feuilles se rétrécissaient comme une sativa au fur et à mesure que la floraison avançait.
Even her leaves narrowed like a sativa as flowering progressed.
Ces gains augmentaient le revenu annuel du ménage de 0,5 % et rétrécissaient l’écart entre les plus démunis et les autres groupes.
The gains added 0.5% to annual household income and narrowed the gap between those earning the least income and others in higher-income brackets.
Hannelore Fleck avait un visage pâle et sensible qui trahissait toutes ses émotions, en cas de contrariété ses pupilles se dilataient, en cas de joie elles se rétrécissaient, petites billes d'un gris bleuté dont il était difficile, alors, de se détacher.
Hannelore Fleck had a bright and sensitive face which was easy to read, gloom could be recognised in a welling up in her eyes, joy as they became smaller, crystalline, grey-blue marbles, making it hard to look away.
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