shrivelled
Meaning of shrivelled
verb
- To collapse inward; to crumble.
The plant shrivelled from lack of water.
- To become wrinkled.
His fingers were shriveled from being in the bath for too long.
- To draw into wrinkles.
The hot sun shrivelled the leaves.
- Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
A prune is a shrivelled plum.
- Collapsed in size.
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Hyphenation of shrivelled
shriv-elled
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- shrivelled is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
shrivelled synonyms
Meaning dried-up:
sere, sear, shriveled, withered
Meaning shriveled:
shriveled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened
Anagrams of shrivelled
Words that rhyme with shrivelled
appalled, autodialled, backpedalled, balled, beballed, becalled, begalled, bethralled, blackballed, caballed, called, cannonballed, carnalled, catcalled, corivalled, coronalled, corralled, corrivalled, coveralled, credentialled, crystalled, curveballed, cymballed, devalled, dialled, disenthralled, disinthralled, drywalled, dualled, emballed, enthralled, envassalled, enwalled, equalled, eyeballed, firewalled, forestalled, galled, generalled, gimballed, gimmalled, halalled, hallalled, highballed, initialled, installed, intervalled, inthralled, inwalled, jackalled
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