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shrivel
[ shriv-uhl ]
verb (used with or without object)
- to contract and wrinkle, as from great heat, cold, or dryness.
Synonyms: shrink
- to wither; make or become helpless or useless.
shrivel
/ ˈʃrɪvəl /
verb
- to make or become shrunken and withered
- to lose or cause to lose vitality
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Other Words From
- un·shriveled adjective
- un·shrivelled adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of shrivel1
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Example Sentences
Ours is the Caiman model, a 6x6 behemoth that weighs in at over 15 tons and makes Humvees shrivel up with feelings of inadequacy.
And then you had the early feminists who were making their young husbands shrivel up because they could never do anything right.
For some time, those contractors have faced the reality of a GOP increasingly willing to shrivel defense budgets.
Presidential power, like a muscle, can strengthen if exercised effectively—or shrivel.
However, if asked to bet whether right-wing apoplexy will grow or shrivel, the smart money obviously has to say the former.
The man on the floor would shrivel up and say, "Oh, please don't, Bill; I hain't ever goin' to tell."
Or what is it wholly unsettlesThy sequence of shower and shine, And maketh thy pushings and petalsTo shrivel and pine?
They says his voice is like thunder, an' lightnin' shoots fr'm his eyes that wud shrivel th' likes iv ye an' me to a cinder.'
As soon as the fish are nearly ready for spawning, all their digestive parts shrivel up, so that they can't eat.
It looked as though the towns would shrivel up, because of the tremendously high wages demanded by the men who were needed there.
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