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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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