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Meanings of shriveled in English
Synonyms
Examples for "withered"
Examples for "withered"
1
Now, in late spring, the young crops withered in the dry ground.
2
Eleven years earlier, when she was twenty-five, her right arm had withered.
3
I found it next morning lying withered and brown in the hall-way.
4
The fruits rotted on the branches, and the leaves withered and fell.
5
A splendid vision of sunlit egalitarian uplands after the State withered away.
1
A dozen fairy cakes sit, slightly shrunken, in their wrinkled paper cases.
2
Monitors brought forward a hovering bed, shaping to support his shrunken frame.
3
The yellowed hands fell limply to the sheet, the shrunken form stiffened.
4
His shrunken legs clanked against the thin flanks of the lean beast.
5
The pyramidal flame that had been the mount of Cones was shrunken.
1
And, in general, Scutari's high idea of European civilization shrivelled and shrank.
2
Before those darting points of flame the pride of the French shrivelled.
3
The hands and feet, in their shrivelled state, are slender and delicate.
4
She bent her cheek upon the shrivelled hand resting upon the arm.
5
It was as though the long-continued cold had cracked and shrivelled him.
1
The lined and wizened face of the German General stood before him.
2
The wizened eyes brightened, and when he stopped one of them whispered:
3
He looked ancient in the torchlight: more wizened and mummified than ever.
4
The ruts on the road were worn and wizened by the cold.
5
Below the top bars of a wizened grate was a chilly fire.
1
Add steaks and sear on both sides, about 1 minute per side.
2
The garden was now dead and sear in the late October frost.
3
Add tuna and sear until golden, about 1 minute on both sides.
4
Working in batches, sear meatballs on all sides to develop a crust.
5
Gently coat the patties in fresh breadcrumbs and sear in hot oil.
1
He explained this to her in a sere reach of the garden.
2
Twenty years, and they the years of the sere, the yellow leaf.
3
The horizon was merely a blue haze-andthe endless land was sere.
4
The dead grass and the dead leaves made a sere, yellow world.
5
Now its trunk was snapped, its boughs crushed, its foliage turning sere.
1
One was tall and stalwart; the other was small, and wizen, and misshapen.
2
A cunning, wizen head peered out at him from the gloom.
3
His face was wizen and wrinkled, his faded blue eyes dim and weak-looking.
4
His blinking eyes were steady, and his wizen face had become suddenly composed.
5
Mr. Finch's wizen little legs took him out of the room.
1
The goat-herds even had forsaken the dried-up pastures and the leafless hedges.
2
She thought again of that dried-up corpse, but not for very long.
3
Well, go back to the first point: the dried-up appearance of things.
4
It is parked deep within the Endemol complex, near a dried-up river.
5
The way that little dried-up sinner found out everything was positively uncanny.
Usage of shriveled in English
1
The shriveled leaves were blown from the trees by the fierce gusts.
2
He was thin and shriveled and had clearly been shriveling for years.
3
The parchment head was green with mold, and hung in shriveled tatters.
4
Roast until the grapes are juicy and slightly shriveled, about 10 minutes.
5
Open fell the mouth, revealing the dog-teeth and the blue, shriveled-looking gums.
6
Norcross had settled into a chair; more, he had shriveled into it.
7
Indian corn, dry and shriveled, was sometimes shocked as in the States.
8
There's something about the shriveled figure and the voice that seems familiar.
9
The shriveled pages of the book had stuck into a gummy block.
10
The bodies of those suffering from intense cold were shriveled and wrinkled.
11
He wore sandals on his shriveled feet, his toenails two inches long.
12
I did not recognize the shriveled half-person that was now my father.
13
Had the arm not been shriveled, the weight might have defeated me.
14
His complexion was swarthy, and his skin shriveled and yellow even then.
15
Wearing a puzzled frown, he pointed to a shriveled pile of leaves.
16
His body had shriveled until he weighed no more than a baby.
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Shriveled across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common