shriveled

Meanings

Verb

• wither, as with a loss of moisture
  • "The fruit dried and shriveled"
• decrease in size, range, or extent
• simple past and past participle of shrivel

Adjective Satellite

• (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
  • "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"
• lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; ; ; ; -W.F.Starkie
  • "the old woman's shriveled skin"
  • "he looked shriveled and ill"
• reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity
  • "our shriveled receipts during the storm"
  • "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"

Adj

• Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
• Collapsed in size.

Synonyms

dried-up, sear, sere, shrink, shrivel, shrivel up, shrivelled, shrunken, wither, withered, wizen, wizened

Related Words

dried up, dry up, shrivel up