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Meaning of shriveled in English

Table of contents
  1. Pronunciation
  2. Classifying Adjective
    1. Definitions
  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Classifying Adjective

    shriveled

    Definitions

    1. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture

    Examples

    • « dried-up grass »
    • « the desert was edged with sere vegetation »
    • « shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings »
    • « withered vines »

    Synonyms

    • dry
  2. 2. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness

    Examples

    • « 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 »

    Synonyms

    • thin
    • lean
  3. 3. reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity

    Examples

    • « our shriveled receipts during the storm »
    • « as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled »
    • « the dollar's shrunken buying power »

    Synonyms

    • decreased
    • reduced

Famous quotes

  • « The earth is rocky and full of roots it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. »
    Anne Lamott
  • « When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. »
    Virginia Woolf

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