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Defenition of the word shrivelled

    • Defenition of the word shrivelled

      • (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"
      • 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"
      • 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"
      • 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"
      • 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
      • reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity
      • lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
      • (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture

    Synonyms for the word shrivelled

      • dried-up
      • sear
      • sere
      • shriveled
      • shrunken
      • withered
      • wizen
      • wizened

    Similar words in the shrivelled

      • decreased
      • dry
      • lean
      • reduced
      • thin

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