shriveled

shriveled
Synonyms and related words:
Lilliputian, Sanforized, Tom Thumb, adust, anile, atrophied, attenuated, baked, brittle, burnt, cadaverous, consumed, corky, corpselike, crabbed, debilitated, decrepit, dehydrated, desiccated, doddered, doddering, doddery, dried, dried-up, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, evaporated, exsiccated, feeble, fossilized, gerontal, gerontic, haggard, hollow-eyed, incipient, infirm, jejune, marantic, marasmic, meager, midget, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummified, mummylike, nanoid, palsied, papery, papery-skinned, parched, parchmenty, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, preshrunk, puny, pygmy, ravaged with age, rickety, rudimental, rudimentary, run to seed, runty, rusty, scorched, scraggy, scrubby, sear, seared, senile, sere, shaky, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, squat, starved, starveling, stricken in years, stunted, sun-dried, sunbaked, tabetic, tabid, thin, timeworn, tottering, tottery, underfed, undernourished, undersize, undersized, wasted, wasted away, weak, weazened, weazeny, wilted, wind-dried, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, wraithlike, wrinkled

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • shriveled — adjective 1. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture (Freq. 1) dried up grass the desert was edged with sere vegetation shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings withered vines • Syn: ↑dried up, ↑s …   Useful english dictionary

  • Shriveled — 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.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • shriveled — adjective a) Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant. A prune is a shriveled plum. b) Collapsed in size. See Also: shrivel up …   Wiktionary

  • shriveled — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. shrunken, withered, dried up, dehydrated, desiccated, wasted away, wilted, wrinkled, wizened, contracted, deflated. ANT.: swollen, plump, ballooning …   English dictionary for students

  • shriveled —  , shriveling …   Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors

  • shriveled — adj. wrinkled and shrunken, dried out, withered shriv·el || ʃrɪvl v. shrink and dry up, wither; cause to wither, cause to dry out; dwindle, decline, decrease in strength or intensity …   English contemporary dictionary

  • shriveled — UK [ˈʃrɪv(ə)ld] / US shrivel …   English dictionary

  • wizened —  Shriveled …   Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors

  • shrivelled — adjective 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, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • shrunken — adjective 1. 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… …   Useful english dictionary

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