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Meanings of shrivelled in inglés

(Used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture.

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      Usage of shrivelled in inglés
      1
      And, in general, Scutari's high idea of European civilization shrivelled and shrank.
      Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle
      2
      Before those darting points of flame the pride of the French shrivelled.
      Deeds that Won the Empire / Historic Battle Scenes
      3
      The hands and feet, in their shrivelled state, are slender and delicate.
      An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American In...
      4
      She bent her cheek upon the shrivelled hand resting upon the arm.
      The Man Thou Gavest
      5
      It was as though the long-continued cold had cracked and shrivelled him.
      Crucial Instances
      6
      The dying part loses sensibility to touch and becomes cold and shrivelled.
      Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.
      7
      So he slowly shrivelled away over the fever-flame of love and died.
      Twenty-Two Goblins
      8
      The very thought shrivelled me with a sense of ignorance and insignificance.
      Tracks of a Rolling Stone
      9
      She felt the skin tickling her hand as it rapidly shrivelled up.
      The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction
      10
      The hand is white, like yours-itis white and dead and shrivelled.
      Nada the Lily
      11
      He has gone back to his roots, to his nation's shrivelled roots.
      The Guardian
      12
      Suddenly one of the shrivelled, mummy hands came down to his own.
      Rosa Mundi and Other Stories
      13
      An entire black and shrivelled Crab-Apple has been recovered from their stores.
      Wild Apples
      14
      A few have already shrivelled in the relentless heat and salty soil.
      Reuters
      15
      What you want is some young blood pumped into your shrivelled veins.
      Peter: A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero
      16
      A few illusions shrivelled up that wintry morning under that murky sky.
      Cobwebs and Cables
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