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shrivel
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shrivel \Shriv"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shriveledor Shrivelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shriveling or Shrivelling.] [Probably akin to shrimp, shrink; cf. dial. AS. screpa to pine away, Norw. skrypa to waste, skryp, skryv, transitory, frail, Sw. skr["o]pling feeble, Dan. skr["o]belig, Icel. skrj?pr brittle, frail.] To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up.
Shrivel \Shriv"el\, v. t. To cause to shrivel or contract; to cause to shrink onto corruptions.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To collapse inward; to crumble. 2 (context intransitive English) To become wrinkled. 3 (context transitive English) To draw into wrinkles.
WordNet
v. wither, especially with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled" [syn: shrivel up, shrink, wither]
decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me" [syn: shrink]
[also: shrivelling, shrivelled]
Usage examples of "shrivel".
Nothing mattered but the oxygen flooding through his chest, plumping up his shriveled cells like raisins soaked in water.
I lifted the bag of bones onto the back of the truck, oblivious to its shrivelled eyes, like black raisins above its yawning, meatless mouth, and it slithered down at me from the pile, a reluctant evacuee.
Miss Brodie sat shrivelled and betrayed in her long-preserved dark musquash coat.
My English teacher, a tiny, shriveled martinet, sent terror into my soul for a dangling participle or an incorrectly parsed sentence.
He looked over his shoulder and saw Ratty running for the safety of the line of dead, shriveled trees several yards away.
Look, my body is getting shrivelled and the bath water going cold, my log book damp as these notes are scribbled in this bath.
Clumps of dried air-weed and red kelp were encrusted across the bitumened plates of the pontoon, shrivelled and burnt by the sun before they could reach the railing around the laboratory, while a dense refuse-filled mass of sargassum and spirogyra cushioned their impact as they reached the narrow jetty, oozing and subsiding like an immense soggy raft.
On Day One, John Threll produced a twisted and shriveled tread which resembled a scaly black snake.
They had a storehouse filled with baskets of nuts and pips, shriveled crab apples, leather vessels brimming with barley and unhulled wheat, herbs dried and hung in bundles, and several covered pots of lard.
The damp cold and the fogs and frosts of the English winters had always been a torment to Zobeida, and of late years her once sturdy frame had seemed to shrink and shrivel until she was barely more than skin and bone.
It was a hot still day in late summer and this was one of the softer corners of the Dales, sheltered by the enclosing fells from the harsh winds which shrivelled all but the heather and the tough moorland gmss.
In real life I fell out of my bed at the Hotel Arapahoe, In the dream my damp, innocent pink lungs shriveled into two black raisins.
No movement ensued, but some few of the glands were blackened and shrivelled, whilst many became quite pale.
Even the leaves of the bougainvillaea had turned brown, and the carefully-nurtured grass along the side of the driveway seemed to have shrivelled and dried.
Working on without a pause in their peculiar hitch-jerky mttions the two Boxheads found tools in the lower half of the-capsule with which to chip away the wax and free the strange shriveled object from its waxy bed.