'Shriveled' definitions:
Definition of 'shriveled'
From: WordNet
adjective
(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines" [syn: dried-up, sere, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered]
adjective
Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened]
adjective
Reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken]
Definition of 'Shriveled'
From: GCIDE
- Shrivel \Shriv"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shriveledor Shrivelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shriveling or Shrivelling.] [Probably akin to shrimp, shrink; cf. dial. AS. screpa to pine away, Norw. skrypa to waste, skryp, skryv, transitory, frail, Sw. skr["o]pling feeble, Dan. skr["o]belig, Icel. skrj?pr brittle, frail.] To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'shriveled'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adust,
- anile,
- atrophied,
- attenuated,
- baked,
- brittle,
- burnt,
- cadaverous,
- consumed,
- corky,
- corpselike,
- crabbed,
- debilitated,
- decrepit,
- dehydrated,
- desiccated,
- doddered,
- doddering,
- doddery,
- dried,
- dried-up,
- dumpy,
- dwarf,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- elfin,
- emacerated,
- emaciate,
- emaciated,
- evaporated,
- exsiccated,
- feeble,
- fossilized,
- gerontal,
- gerontic,
- haggard,
- hollow-eyed,
- incipient,
- infirm,
- jejune,
- Lilliputian,
- marantic,
- marasmic,
- meager,
- midget,
- mossbacked,
- moth-eaten,
- mummified,
- mummylike,
- nanoid,
- palsied,
- papery,
- papery-skinned,
- parched,
- parchmenty,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- pinched,
- poor,
- preshrunk,
- puny,
- pygmy,
- ravaged with age,
- rickety,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- run to seed,
- runty,
- rusty,
- Sanforized,
- scorched,
- scraggy,
- scrubby,
- sear,
- seared,
- senile,
- sere,
- shaky,
- shriveled up,
- shrunk,
- shrunken,
- skeletal,
- squat,
- starved,
- starveling,
- stricken in years,
- stunted,
- sun-dried,
- sunbaked,
- tabetic,
- tabid,
- thin,
- timeworn,
- Tom Thumb,
- tottering,
- tottery,
- underfed,
- undernourished,
- undersize,
- undersized,
- wasted,
- wasted away,
- weak,
- weazened,
- weazeny,
- wilted,
- wind-dried,
- withered,
- wizen,
- wizen-faced,
- wizened,
- wraithlike,
- wrinkled