Shriveled (Adjective)
Meaning 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".
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Meaning 2
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".
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Meaning 3
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 grey hair".
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Examples
- Her once full and round face now appeared shriveled due to her illness.
- After a prolonged stay in the desert without water, the man's shriveled lips were severely chapped.
- His hands, now shriveled with age, had lost the skill that they once possessed.
- As the months passed by, her once full skin started to appear shriveled from dehydration.
- Her shriveled frame in the doorway looked as though the cancer had been slowly consuming her away.