English - English (Wordnet) dictionary
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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 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
- the desert was edged with sere vegetation
- shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings