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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):

shrivelled
    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]