shrivelled

Adjective

(comparative more shrivelled, superlative most shrivelled)

Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
A prune is a shrivelled plum.
Collapsed in size.
His insults, from someone I respect so much, make me want to shrivel up and die.

Verb

simple past tense and past participle of shrivel

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When exposed to the air these leaves easily part with their moisture, and become shrivelled and dry.
Mexican sarsaparilla has slender, shrivelled roots nearly devoid of rootlets.
The south-western shore is generally low, with sand hills covered with shrivelled pines and bur oaks.
The root bark is reddish-brown, thin and shrivelled, and there is an abundance of rootlets, which are technically known by the name of "beard."
In Scrophularia the fifth stamen appears in the form of a scale; and in many Pentstemons it is reduced to a filament with hairs or a shrivelled membrane at the apex.

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