shriveled : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: shriveled	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for shriveled
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shriveled adj (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" Synonym(s): dried-up, sere, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered 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.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair" Synonym(s): shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened 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" Synonym(s): shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shrivel \Shriv"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shriveled}or {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[94]pling feeble, Dan. skr[94]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.