Shrivel Definition

shrĭvəl
shriveled, shriveling, shrivelled, shrivelling, shrivels
verb
shriveled, shriveling, shrivelled, shrivelling, shrivels
To become or make shrunken and wrinkled, often by drying.
Leaves die, fall, and shrivel. The heat shriveled the unwatered seedlings.
American Heritage
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.
American Heritage
To become or make much less or smaller; dwindle.
American Heritage
To shrink and make or become wrinkled or withered.
Webster's New World
To make or become helpless, useless, or inefficient.
Webster's New World
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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.

  • The berries do not shrivel up as those do that are affected by the black rot.

  • 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."

  • In some bamboos they are very numerous from the lower nodes of the erect culms, and pass downwards to the soil, whilst those from the upper nodes shrivel up and form circles of spiny fibres.

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LELVEL

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