Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shriveled"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shrivel \Shriv"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shriveled}or
{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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
shriveled
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}, {shrivelled}, {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: {shrivelled}, {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: {shrivelled}, {shrunken}]
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