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HEAD-SHRINKER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies
Synonyms:
head-shrinker; headhunter
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("head-shrinker" is a kind of...):
barbarian; savage (a member of an uncivilized people)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A physician who specializes in psychiatry
Synonyms:
head-shrinker; psychiatrist; shrink
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("head-shrinker" is a kind of...):
medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "head-shrinker"):
alienist (a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness)
analyst; psychoanalyst (a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis)
Instance hyponyms:
Horney; Karen Danielsen Horney; Karen Horney (United States psychiatrist (1885-1952))
Jaspers; Karl Jaspers; Karl Theodor Jaspers (German psychiatrist (1883-1969))
Charles Frederick Menninger; Charles Menninger; Menninger (United States psychiatrist who with his sons founded a famous psychiatric clinic in Topeka (1862-1953))
Karl Augustus Menninger; Karl Menninger; Menninger (United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1893-1990))
Menninger; William Claire Menninger; William Menninger (United States psychiatrist and son of Charles Menninger (1899-1966))
Harry Stack Sullivan; Sullivan (United States psychiatrist (1892-1949))
