shrivelled 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.
shrivelled 近义词
dehydrate, dry up
更多shrivelled例句
- But as European governments cut back on the price they were willing to pay for drugs, European pharmaceutical research shrivelled.
- I would rather go to church with Dolly in homespun, than ride in a carriage beside that shrivelled piece of tanned leather.
- His skin was shrivelled like that of a preserved fig, and he wore big horn-rimmed spectacles.
- A little cringing shrivelled old man stood up in astonishment.
- The little shrivelled don who had been omniscient about guns joined in the baiting, and displayed himself a venomous creature.
- That magnificent proposition shrivelled to nothing in the black loneliness of that night.