SHRIVELLED

• (adj.) 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"

  synonyms : shriveled , shrunken

• (adj.) 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", "he did well despite his withered arm", "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"

  synonyms : shriveled , shrunken , withered , wizen , wizened

• (adj.) (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"

  synonyms : dried-up , sear , sere , shriveled , withered

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