SHRIVELLED

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”

SHRIVEL

shrivel, shrivel up, shrink, wither

(verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture; “The fruit dried and shriveled”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

shrivelled (comparative more shrivelled, superlative most shrivelled) (British spelling)

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

Collapsed in size.

Verb

shrivelled

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

Anagrams

• Helldivers, hell-divers, helldivers

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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