Word Finder - shrivelled

definition

To collapse inward; to crumble.

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The plant shrivelled from lack of water.

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To become wrinkled.

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

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To draw into wrinkles.

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The hot sun shrivelled the leaves.

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Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.

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A prune is a shrivelled plum.

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Collapsed in size.

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.

Grapes attacked by the fungus; the fruit becomes black, hard and shrivelled.

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."

If the flow of arterial blood only is arrested, the part depending upon it for nutrition becomes numb, cold and shrivelled, and the form of mortification known as dry gangrene occurs.

The;'s` scale-leaves clothing the terminal bud are " linear-lanceolate in form, and of a brown or yellow colour; they are pushed aside as the stem-axis elongates and becomes shrivelled, finally falling off, leaving projecting bases which are eventually cut off at a still lower level.

Beardless and shrivelled, writes Sir John Malcolm, it resembled that of an aged and wrinkled woman, and the expression of his countenance, at no time pleasant, was horrible when clouded, as it very often was, with indignation.

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.

It has a much more shrivelled appearance and paler colour than ordinary jalap, and lacks the small transverse scars present in the true drug.

With their eyes on the ends of the earth, and a ring of enemies from Constantinople to the Antilles, the Spaniards fought, with steadily diminishing material resources, with a character and intellect which shrivelled by swift degrees.

During the dark ages, in the Byzantine East, as well as in the West, Hellenism had become little more than a dried and shrivelled tradition, although the closer study of Byzantine culture in latter years has seemed to discover more vitality than was once supposed.