Used with why or when

• when: Democracy matters but we can see how it can be allowed to shrivel when democratic traditions are inconvenient to wider plans.

Object

• man: Guy at the opening of the novel is a shriveled, unattached man.

• hand: Her shriveled hand just fluttered into touch of mine.

• husk: A shriveled husk of a man was standing in the center archway, watching her.

• grape: He comes looking for fruit to gather and discovers only a few pitiful bunches of shriveled grapes.

• grain: Such difficulties hit poor farmers hardest, as they have less access to irrigation, and can least afford the loss from shriveled grain.

Modifying Another Word

• just: There is no need to remove them, they just shrivel during cooking.

• then: Why do we grow into a beautiful person then shrivel away?

• often: Tips of emerging leaves appear brown and scorched, and often shrivel and rot.

• away: By 2.8 million years, humid woodland had shriveled away, leaving wide belts of open terrain in its place.

• all: Nearly all had their eyes burnt quite out and their tongues were all shriveled up.

• up: Don't despair, with a few simple preparations, you can avoid returning to a dried up shriveled garden!

Preposition: in

• sun: There the carcass still lay, shriveled in the sun and occupied by a swarm of bees!