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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Shrivelled (0.00926 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Shrivelled.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: shrivel melayukan, mengerut
English → English (WordNet) Definition: shrivelled shrivel v 1: wither, especially with a loss of moisture; “The fruit dried and shriveled” [syn: shrivel up, shrink, wither] 2: decrease in size, range, or extent; “His earnings shrank”; “My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me” [syn: shrink] [also: shrivelling, shrivelled] shrivelled adj 1: (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” [syn: dried-up, sere, sear, shriveled, withered] 2: 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”-W.F.Starkie; “he did well despite his withered arm”; “a wizened little man with frizzy gray hair” [syn: shriveled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened] 3: 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” [syn: shriveled, shrunken] shrivelled See shrivel
English → English (gcide) Definition: Shrivelled Shrivel \Shriv"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shriveledor Shrivelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shriveling or Shrivelling.] [Probably akin to shrimp, shrink; cf. dial. AS. screpa to pine away, Norw. skrypa to waste, skryp, skryv, transitory, frail, Sw. skr["o]pling feeble, Dan. skr["o]belig, Icel. skrj?pr brittle, frail.] To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up. [1913 Webster]

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