SHRIVELED

shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken

(adjective) reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; “our shriveled receipts during the storm”; “as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled”; “the dollar’s shrunken buying power”

shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened

(adjective) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; “the old woman’s shriveled skin”; “he looked shriveled and ill”; “a shrunken old man”; “a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws”-W.F.Starkie; “he did well despite his withered arm”; “a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair”

sere, dried-up, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered

(adjective) (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; “dried-up grass”; “the desert was edged with sere vegetation”; “shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings”; “withered vines”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Adjective

shriveled (comparative more shriveled, superlative most shriveled) (American spelling)

Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.

Collapsed in size.

Verb

shriveled

(American spelling) simple past tense and past participle of shrivel

Source: Wiktionary

SHRIVEL

Shriv"el, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shriveled or Shrivelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shriveling or Shrivelling.] Etym: [Probably akin to shrimp, shrink; cf. dial. AS. screpa to pine away, Norw. skrypa to waste, skryp, skryv, transitory, frail, Sw. skröpling feeble, Dan. skröbelig, Icel. skrj brittle, frail.]

Definition: To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up.

Shriv"el, v. t.

Definition: To cause to shrivel or contract; to cause to shrink onto corruptions.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

SHRIVELED

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