EGAVE

shrivelled

About 0.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
    A prune is a shrivelled plum.
  2. adjective Collapsed in size.
  3. verb simple past and past participle of shrivel

Similar words

shrunken withered wizened wizen sear thin reduced lean sere dry

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and up to old in into by skin hand

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