Shrivel \Shriv"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shriveledor
Shrivelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shriveling or Shrivelling.]
[Probably akin to shrimp, shrink; cf. dial. AS. screpa to
pine away, Norw. skrypa to waste, skryp, skryv, transitory,
frail, Sw. skr["o]pling feeble, Dan. skr["o]belig, Icel.
skrj?pr brittle, frail.]
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.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shriveled
adj 1: (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" [syn: dried-up, sere,
sear, shrivelled, withered]
2: 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 gray hair" [syn: shrivelled, shrunken, withered,
wizen, wizened]
3: 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" [syn: shrivelled, shrunken]
WordNet (r) 2.0
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "shriveled":
Lilliputian, Sanforized, Tom Thumb, adust, anile, atrophied,
attenuated, baked, brittle, burnt, cadaverous, consumed, corky,
corpselike, crabbed, debilitated, decrepit, dehydrated, desiccated,
doddered, doddering, doddery, dried, dried-up, dumpy, dwarf,
dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated,
evaporated, exsiccated, feeble, fossilized, gerontal, gerontic,
haggard, hollow-eyed, incipient, infirm, jejune, marantic,
marasmic, meager, midget, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummified,
mummylike, nanoid, palsied, papery, papery-skinned, parched,
parchmenty, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, preshrunk, puny, pygmy,
ravaged with age, rickety, rudimental, rudimentary, run to seed,
runty, rusty, scorched, scraggy, scrubby, sear, seared, senile,
sere, shaky, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, squat,
starved, starveling, stricken in years, stunted, sun-dried,
sunbaked, tabetic, tabid, thin, timeworn, tottering, tottery,
underfed, undernourished, undersize, undersized, wasted,
wasted away, weak, weazened, weazeny, wilted, wind-dried, withered,
wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, wraithlike, wrinkled
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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