English to English
adjective satellite
- (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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
He did well despite his withered arm.
A wizened little man with frizzy grey hair.
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
