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Definition of Shriveled

1. Adjective. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture. "Withered vines"

2. Adjective. Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness. "A wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

3. Adjective. Reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity. "The dollar's shrunken buying power"

Definition of Shriveled

1. Adjective. Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant. ¹

2. Adjective. Collapsed in size. ¹

3. Verb. (past of ''shrivel'') ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shriveled

1. shrivel [v] - See also: shrivel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shriveled

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Literary usage of Shriveled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by State Entomologist of Indiana (1916)
"black shriveled mummies and furnish a source of infection the following year. These diseased apples therefore should be removed. BLACK ROT ON FRUIT AND LIMB ..."

2. Bacteria in Relation to Plant Diseases by Erwin Frink Smith (1911)
"Two days later the whole of the pricked blade and the upper two-thirds of the petiole had shriveled. The eleventh day the second leaf was beginning to ..."

3. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"... but lacking a spiral band, these more or less shriveled and obscure at the maturity of the spores. Key to the Species. Spores permanently united in ..."

4. Antonina: Or, The Fall of Rome by Wilkie Collins (1874)
"... was bent forward over a large triangular shield of polished brass, on which she leaned her lank, shriveled arms. Her head shook with a tremulous, ..."

5. Pediatrics (1902)
"... or smile; the tongue cannot be protruded beyond the teeth or raised to the roof of the mouth; it is thickly coated, plainly shriveled and lies passively ..."

6. Diseases of the Digestive Tract and Their Treatment by Arthur Everett Austin (1916)
"leucocytes are often found shriveled, which, according to A. Schmidt, is due to a rigidity and ... Microscopic appearance of colon mucus with "shriveled ..."

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