adjective
                                                (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
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                                                                                                        - dried-up grass
- the desert was edged with sere vegetation
- shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings
- withered vines
 
                                                                                        
                                                adjective
                                                lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
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                                                                                                Examples
                                                
                                                                                                        - 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"-W.F.Starkie
- he did well despite his withered arm
- a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair
 
                                                                                        
                                                adjective
                                                reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity
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                                                                                                Examples
                                                
                                                                                                        - our shriveled receipts during the storm
- as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled
- the dollar's shrunken buying power