shrivelled

Meanings

Verb

• wither, as with a loss of moisture
• decrease in size, range, or extent
  • "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
• simple past and past participle of shrivel

Adjective Satellite

• (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
• lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; ; ; ; -W.F.Starkie
• reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity

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, shriveled, shrunken, wither, withered, wizen, wizened

Related Words

shrivel up