shriveled

Meaning of shriveled

verb
  1. To collapse inward; to crumble.
    The plant shrivelled from lack of water.
  2. To become wrinkled.
    His fingers were shriveled from being in the bath for too long.
  3. To draw into wrinkles.
    The hot sun shrivelled the leaves.
adjective
  1. Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
    A prune is a shriveled plum.
  2. Collapsed in size.

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Hyphenation of shriveled

shriv-eled

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • shriveled is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

shriveled synonyms

Meaning dried-up:

sere, sear, shrivelled, withered

Meaning shrivelled:

shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened

Words that rhyme with shriveled

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