shrivel
verb (used with or without object)
to contract and wrinkle, as from great heat, cold, or dryness.
had shrivelled
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past perfectof shrivel.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Badenoch said the prime minister had "shrivelled" from leadership and called on him to apologise to Epstein's victims.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025
Each year, we found that the toe of the glacier had shrivelled further.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2019
Would they had shrivelled or ever they'd read of it!
From Days and Dreams Poems by Madison J. Cawein
I had shrivelled and starved three years out there in the desert.
From Whispering Smith by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
They knew that deep and terrible voice menaced themselves as well as the late Ben Blunt—for that mere street urchin, blown upon by the winds of desolation, had shrivelled and passed.
From The Wrong Twin by Harry Leon Wilson
