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Shrivel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To become or make shrunken and wrinkled, often by drying: Leaves die, fall, and shrivel. The heat shriveled the unwatered seedlings.

v. To lose or cause to lose vitality or intensity: My enthusiasm shriveled as the project wore on. Inflation shriveled the buying power of the dollar.

v. To become or make much less or smaller; dwindle.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To collapse inward; to crumble.

v. To become wrinkled.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

verb-intransitive. To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; ; -- often with up.

v. To cause to shrivel or contract; to cause to shrink onto corruptions.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To contract; draw or be drawn into wrinkles; shrink and form corrugations, as a leaf in the hot sun, or the skin with age.

Synonyms To shrivel is to become wrinkled or corrugated by contraction; to shrink is, as a rule, to contract while preserving the same general form.

To contract into wrinkles; cause to shrink into corrugations.

To make narrow; limit in scope.

To wither; blight; render impotent.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. wither, as with a loss of moisture

v. decrease in size, range, or extent

Word Usage

"Okay, why did my brain shrivel to the size and consistency of a pea after two kids and you just had a baby and show no signs of “baby brain” at all."

Verb Form

shrivelled shrivelling shrivels

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

diminish fall lessen decrease

Variant

shrivelled shrivelling

Form

shriveled shrivelled shriveling shrivelling

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

absolve confess contract wrinkle

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

civil drivel swivel uncivil