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shriveled

/shriv-uhl/US // ˈʃrɪv əl //UK // (ˈʃrɪvəl) //

干瘪的,萎缩的,干瘪,萎缩

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Definitions

  1. 1

    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.

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Examples

  • They became so brown and shriveled that they looked like walking beef jerky with New York accents.

  • It will end up shriveled up, dried up, dead; rolled up in dirty gauze and tossed into a wastebasket, quickly forgotten.

  • The bone marrow of the dead soldiers was depleted dramatically, and their lymph nodes had shriveled away.

  • A dreadful disease, possibly muscular dystrophy, had shriveled his legs.

  • As the upstate economy has shriveled, the state government has come to rely heavily on the financial sector as a revenue source.

  • The flavor was exceedingly fine, but it had not been allowed to come to maturity, hence it was thin and shriveled.

  • Presently a little old woman approaches, shriveled and smiling, in her faded furbelows now in rags.

  • The Church, the nobles, and the gentry then turned one grand, all-disapproving frown upon them and shriveled them into sheep!

  • The little being lay at the feet of its mother, almost shapeless, and already blackened and shriveled by the fiery sun.

  • Could I stay the touch of that shriveled hand, I would keep the bald-head from No-man's-land.