Shriveled

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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["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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}, {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 gray hair" [syn: {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: {shrivelled}, {shrunken}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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