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shrivelled
adjective
reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity
Quick reference
Word Facts
- Word length
- 10
- Starts with
- S
- Ends with
- D
- Contains
- HRIVELLE
- Scrabble score
- 17
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
Meaning
Definitions
adjective
reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity
“our shriveled receipts during the storm”
adjective
lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
“the old woman's shriveled skin”
adjective
(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
“dried-up grass”
In context
Example Sentences
our shriveled receipts during the storm
as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled
the dollar's shrunken buying power
the old woman's shriveled skin
he looked shriveled and ill
a shrunken old man
{'source': 'W.F.Starkie', 'text': 'a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws'}
he did well despite his withered arm
dried-up grass
the desert was edged with sere vegetation
shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings
withered vines
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