adjective
                                                lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
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                                                                                                        - 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
                                                (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
 
                                                                                        
                                                verb
                                                wither, as with a loss of moisture
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                                                                                                        - The fruit dried and shriveled
 
                                                                                        
                                                verb
                                                lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
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                                                                                                        - Her bloom was fading