shriveled

adj. wrinkled and shrunken, dried out, withered

v. shrink and dry up, wither; cause to wither, cause to dry out; dwindle, decline, decrease in strength or intensity

Adjective
1. (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"
(synonym) dried-up, sere, sear, shrivelled, withered
(similar) dry
(classification) vegetation, flora
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 gray hair"
(synonym) shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened
(similar) thin, lean
3. 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"
(synonym) shrivelled, shrunken
(similar) decreased, reduced

Verb
1. wither, especially with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"
(synonym) shrivel up, shrink, wither
(hypernym) decrease, diminish, lessen, fall
(hyponym) atrophy
2. decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
(synonym) shrink
(hypernym) decrease, diminish, lessen, fall

(imp. & p. p.)
of Shrivel
  

Synonyms and related words:
Lilliputian, Sanforized, Tom Thumb, adust, anile, atrophied, attenuated, baked, brittle, burnt, cadaverous, consumed, corky, corpselike, crabbed, debilitated, decrepit, dehydrated, desiccated, doddered, doddering, doddery, dried, dried-up, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, evaporated, exsiccated, feeble, fossilized, gerontal, gerontic, haggard, hollow-eyed, incipient, infirm, jejune, marantic, marasmic, meager, midget, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummified, mummylike, nanoid, palsied, papery, papery-skinned, parched, parchmenty, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, preshrunk, puny, pygmy, ravaged with age, rickety, rudimental, rudimentary, run to seed, runty, rusty, scorched, scraggy, scrubby, sear, seared, senile, sere, shaky, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, squat, starved, starveling, stricken in years, stunted, sun-dried, sunbaked, tabetic, tabid, thin, timeworn, tottering, tottery, underfed, undernourished, undersize, undersized, wasted, wasted away, weak, weazened, weazeny, wilted, wind-dried, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, wraithlike, wrinkled
  

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