shriveled

Adjective

• 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 grey hair
    

• (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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  shrivelled , shrunken , withered , wizen , wizened , dried-up , sere , sear