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Examples of shrivelled
shrivelled
Stalks are deformed and often have no ears or shrivelled ears with tiny kernels.
From the smh.com.au
And lament the fact that your old friend has shrivelled little personal skills.
From the washingtonpost.com
Shrivelled testes grew back to normal and the animals regained their fertility.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In the play, they used a puppet of a dead child, blackened, shrivelled, terrible.
From the guardian.co.uk
Shrivelled French grapes at the end of Europe's hottest summer on record, in 2003.
From the independent.co.uk
Venture funding has shrivelled up in America, and Europe is not doing much better.
From the economist.com
The moon is not exactly the shrivelled prune of a satellite we once thought.
From the newscientist.com
Though the Radicals shrivelled and splintered around him, he clung on as their leader.
From the economist.com
But recent years have brought new hardships as demand for their wares has shrivelled.
From the economist.com
- 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
