shriveled
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5.2
- adjective
- /ˈʃrɪvəld/
- US
:
marchito
- The shriveled apple sat at the back of the fridge, forgotten and covered in dust.
He looks like just like a shriveled, dry aged apricot.
- He looks like just like a shriveled, dry aged apricot.
Examples
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The old man's hands were shriveled and wrinkled, a testament to his many years of hard work.
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After weeks without water, the plants in the garden became shriveled and lifeless.
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He looks like just like a shriveled, dry aged apricot.
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The grasses and flowers I placed into the grave with her seemed as dried, shriveled, and useless as she had become.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
40
4.2
Very thin and weak in a way that looks unhealthy
34
1.5
Having small lines on skin or cloth
18
3.5
No longer holds water and is very dry, like a riverbed or plant
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6.0
Thin and untidy in appearance, often with rough, uneven ends
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8.1
Thin and wrinkled from age or illness
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6.0
Very thin with bones showing under the skin
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4.8
Very small and wrinkled, often because of age or illness
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9.9
Very dry and withered, often describing plants or leaves
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4.6
It looks dry, thin, and lifeless like old leaves
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7.7
A part of the body that becomes smaller and weaker from illness, injury or lack of use
Dried and shrunken with a wrinkled surface from lack of water
Dry, thin, and wrinkled from old age or sickness
Having a wrinkled, creased surface
Very thin and bony in a way that looks unhealthy
Antonyms
How Wrinkled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Shriveled comes from the idea of something getting much smaller and wrinkled, like a flower or fruit left in the hot sun. Think of it like the familiar word shrink plus the idea of a 'wrinkle', so shriveled describes something that has 'shrunk' and become 'wrinkled'.