Shrivel meaning

shrĭv'əl
To become or make shrunken and wrinkled, often by drying.

Leaves die, fall, and shrivel. The heat shriveled the unwatered seedlings.

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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.

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To become or make much less or smaller; dwindle.
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To shrink and make or become wrinkled or withered.
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To make or become helpless, useless, or inefficient.
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(intransitive) To collapse inward; to crumble.

I saw him shrivel on the ground in fear.

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(intransitive) To become wrinkled.

His fingers were shriveled from being in the bath for too long.

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To draw into wrinkles.

The hot sun shrivelled the leaves.

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Origin of shrivel

  • Origin unknown
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Shrivel Sentence Examples

  • Carmen wanted to shrivel out of sight.

  • The leaves shrivel, the plant ceases to grow, and the grapes that are formed also shrivel and die.

  • scrob; the root, which is also seen in "shrimp" and "shrivel," means to contract.

  • Apart from the fact that reckoning from the birth of Christ was by no means universal, and consequently the mass of men were ignorant that there was such a thing as the year 1000, one wonders how that most enduring type of architecture, the Romanesque, reached its maturity among men who thought that the earth itself was so soon to "shrivel like a parched scroll."

  • The grapes are allowed to remain on the vines some three to four weeks longer than is the case in the Medoc, and the result is that they shrivel up and become over-ripe, and so contain relatively little water and a very large quantity of sugar.

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