shrivel 的定义
shriv·eled, shriv·el·ing or shriv·elled, shriv·el·ling.
- to contract and wrinkle, as from great heat, cold, or dryness.
- to wither; make or become helpless or useless.
shrivel 近义词
dehydrate, dry up
更多shrivel例句
- Over time, the fruit will start to soften and shrivel, forming an elegantly craggy surface with deep grooves in the folded skin.
- To see, say, frost-shriveled red rose hips near a clump of giant snowdrops in December bloom is wonderful, but the sight also seems to signify winter’s altered state.
- Some females will take on multiple live-in boyfriends, with her body providing them nutrients as they shrivel into lazy sacks of sperm to fertilize her eggs.
- As stores shuttered and revenue shriveled, it would have been easy for brands and media companies across the board to simply focus on keeping the doors open.
- Delayed action will only allow more small businesses to shrivel and die, and our streets to therefore become less welcoming and safe.
- Ours is the Caiman model, a 6x6 behemoth that weighs in at over 15 tons and makes Humvees shrivel up with feelings of inadequacy.
- And then you had the early feminists who were making their young husbands shrivel up because they could never do anything right.
- For some time, those contractors have faced the reality of a GOP increasingly willing to shrivel defense budgets.
- Presidential power, like a muscle, can strengthen if exercised effectively—or shrivel.
- However, if asked to bet whether right-wing apoplexy will grow or shrivel, the smart money obviously has to say the former.
- The man on the floor would shrivel up and say, "Oh, please don't, Bill; I hain't ever goin' to tell."
- Or what is it wholly unsettlesThy sequence of shower and shine, And maketh thy pushings and petalsTo shrivel and pine?
- They says his voice is like thunder, an' lightnin' shoots fr'm his eyes that wud shrivel th' likes iv ye an' me to a cinder.'
- As soon as the fish are nearly ready for spawning, all their digestive parts shrivel up, so that they can't eat.
- It looked as though the towns would shrivel up, because of the tremendously high wages demanded by the men who were needed there.