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Examples of shrivel
shrivel
Planted seeds would shrivel and die in the ground before they could ever sprout.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Males collect the fruits, but when the fruits shrivel, they discard them nearby.
From the sciencedaily.com
As the housing economy cratered, Mr. Parker saw his remodeling business shrivel.
From the online.wsj.com
Plant our seeds, and watch your crops thrive while their pests shrivel and die.
From the infowars.com
The only drawback is that eventually they will shrivel, and many will fall off.
From the timesunion.com
Like all living forms, we flourish in certain conditions and shrivel in others.
From the cnn.com
Think about those retired people whose retirement income will shrivel up to zero.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
Roast in preheated oven until outside skin starts to shrivel, about 10 minutes.
From the ocregister.com
Will the tiny Tagbanua community thrive or shrivel in the gaze of global tourism?
From the couriermail.com.au
- Wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"
- Shrink: decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
- (shrivelled) dried-up: (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"
- (shrivelled) shriveled: 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. ...
- (shrivelled) shriveled: 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"
- Shrivelling is a natural phenomenon where an object, with an attached sub-elastic covering, has its interior volume reduced in some way. The covering, which cannot contract any further, is then obliged to wrinkle and buckle, in order to preserve surface area while containing the lesser volume.
- To collapse inward; to crumble; To become wrinkled
- (shrivelled) Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant; Collapsed in size
