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shrivelled

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

干瘪的,干瘪,干枯的,萎缩的

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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

  • 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.