shriveled

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Explanation of "Shriveled"

Definition: The word "shriveled" is an adjective that describes something that has become smaller, thinner, or wrinkled, often because it has lost moisture or vitality. It can refer to people, plants, or objects. When something is shriveled, it looks dry and unhealthy.

Summary

"Shriveled" is a descriptive word used to talk about something that has become small, dry, and often weak, either physically or metaphorically.

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Adjective

1. 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
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 grey hair
3. (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

Synonyms

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