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HOME | Definition of shriveled (SHRIVELED, Shriveled)


    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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