shrivelled English

Meaning shrivelled meaning

What does shrivelled mean?

shrivelled

— adjective (= shriveled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened) 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

— adjective (= shriveled, shrunken) 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

— adjective (= dried-up, sere, shriveled, withered) (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

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shrivelled English » English

withered

shriveled

wrinkled

wizened

wizen

shrunken

sere

sear

dried-up

contracted

wrinkly

wearish

thin

stunted

stone hard

shrunk

paralyzed

marcid

lank

incapacitated

haggard

flaccid

emaciated

dry

crooked

crippled

contracted into wrinkles

clubbed