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shriveled
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As an adjective, shriveled means wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
Meanings of shriveled
5 meaningsadjective
Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
“A prune is a shriveled plum.”
Collapsed in size.
(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
“dried-up grass”
“the desert was edged with sere vegetation”
“shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings”
Similar: dried-up, sere, sear, shrivelled, witheredLean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
“the old woman's shriveled skin”
“he looked shriveled and ill”
“a shrunken old man”
Similar: shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizenedReduced 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”
Similar: shrivelled, shrunken
verb
Simple past tense and past participle of shrivel
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).