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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture;
- Example: "dried-up grass"
- Example: "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"
- Example: "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"
- Example: "withered vines"
[syn: dried-up, sere, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered]

2. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness;
- Example: "the old woman's shriveled skin"
- Example: "he looked shriveled and ill"
- Example: "a shrunken old man"
- Example: "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie
- Example: "he did well despite his withered arm"
- Example: "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"
[syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened]

3. reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity;
- Example: "our shriveled receipts during the storm"
- Example: "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"
- Example: "the dollar's shrunken buying power"
[syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

shriveled
    adj 1: (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" [syn: dried-up, sere,
           sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered]
    2: 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" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken,
       withered, wizen, wizened]
    3: 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" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

113 Moby Thesaurus words for "shriveled":
   Lilliputian, Sanforized, Tom Thumb, adust, anile, atrophied,
   attenuated, baked, brittle, burnt, cadaverous, consumed, corky,
   corpselike, crabbed, debilitated, decrepit, dehydrated, desiccated,
   doddered, doddering, doddery, dried, dried-up, dumpy, dwarf,
   dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated,
   evaporated, exsiccated, feeble, fossilized, gerontal, gerontic,
   haggard, hollow-eyed, incipient, infirm, jejune, marantic,
   marasmic, meager, midget, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummified,
   mummylike, nanoid, palsied, papery, papery-skinned, parched,
   parchmenty, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, preshrunk, puny, pygmy,
   ravaged with age, rickety, rudimental, rudimentary, run to seed,
   runty, rusty, scorched, scraggy, scrubby, sear, seared, senile,
   sere, shaky, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, squat,
   starved, starveling, stricken in years, stunted, sun-dried,
   sunbaked, tabetic, tabid, thin, timeworn, tottering, tottery,
   underfed, undernourished, undersize, undersized, wasted,
   wasted away, weak, weazened, weazeny, wilted, wind-dried, withered,
   wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, wraithlike, wrinkled