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Shrivelled

adjective

1.

(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture. Synonyms: dried-up, sear, sere, shriveled, withered. "The desert was edged with sere vegetation" , "Shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings" , "Withered vines"

2.

Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness. Synonyms: shriveled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened. "He looked shriveled and ill" , "A shrunken old man" , "A lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws" , "He did well despite his withered arm" , "A wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

3.

Reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity. Synonyms: shriveled, shrunken. "As the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled" , "The dollar's shrunken buying power"

Shrivel

verb

(past & past part. shriveled or shrivelled; pres. part. shriveling or shrivelling)

1.

Wither, as with a loss of moisture. Synonyms: shrink, shrivel up, wither.

2.

Decrease in size, range, or extent. Synonym: shrink. "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"

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"Shrivelled" Quotes from Famous Books

... companions. He used to trot about the compound, in and out of the castor-oil bushes, on mysterious errands of his own. One day I stumbled upon some of his handiwork far down the grounds. He had half buried the polo-ball in dust, and stuck six shrivelled old marigold flowers in a circle round it. Outside that circle again was a rude square, traced out in bits of red brick alternating with fragments of broken china; the whole bounded by a little bank of dust. The water-man from the well-curb ...

— The Kipling Reader - Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling • Rudyard Kipling

... ruefully. "All the forenoon I preserved rhubarb with my hands and waited for the war news with my soul. When it came I shrivelled. Well, I suppose I must go and get ready for the ...

— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... the men were well-dressed and prosperous-looking; while the fourth, a shrivelled old fellow, in faded clothes which seemed several sizes too large for him, looked needy and ill-fed as he nervously chafed his thin ...

— The House of Whispers • William Le Queux

... his face as he dashed for the circle. Another monster swooped and struck its spines into his back, and bit a great mouthful out of his shoulder. But he gained the fires, and, holding his breath, sprang right through the fiercest flame. The wings of his assailants shrivelled instantly, and the flame, drawn into the mouth of their breathing tubes, sealed them up. Grom tore them off, and slammed the writhing, ...

— In the Morning of Time • Charles G. D. Roberts

... over the hot-water pipes. I turned off the hot water in the other rooms so as to concentrate the heat in these pipes, and I let a free current of air pass through the room. The result interested me exceedingly. By the end of the third day the hands and feet had become quite dry and shrivelled and horny—so that the ring actually dropped off the shrunken finger—the nose looked like a fold of parchment; and the skin of the body was so dry and smooth that you could have engrossed a lease on it. For the first day or two I turned the deceased at intervals so that ...

— The Vanishing Man • R. Austin Freeman

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