Synonyms of the word shriveled


SHRIVELEDDECREASED - DRY - LEAN - REDUCED - SEAR - SERE - SHRIVELLED - SHRUNKEN - THIN - WITHERED - WIZEN - WIZENED

shriveled

  • adj. Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
  • adj. Collapsed in size.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of shrivel.

decreased

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of decrease.

dry

  • adj. Free from or lacking moisture.
  • adj. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (Petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
  • adj. (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
  • adj. (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquid…
  • adj. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
  • adj. (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
  • adj. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly.
  • adj. (sciences, somewhat pejorative) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
  • n. (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
  • n. (especially Australia, with "the") The dry season.
  • n. (Australia) An area of waterless country.
  • v. (intransitive) To lose moisture.
  • v. (transitive) To remove moisture from.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be thirsty.

lean

  • v. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
  • v. To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to, toward, etc.
  • v. To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on, upon, or against.
  • v. To hang outwards.
  • v. To press against.
  • n. (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
  • adj. (of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy.
  • adj. (of meat) having little fat.
  • adj. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
  • adj. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
  • adj. (printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed…
  • adj. efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean…
  • v. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or…
  • v. To conceal.
  • n. (slang) A recreational drug based on codeine laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community…

reduced

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of reduce.
  • adj. Made smaller or less, resulting from reduction.
  • adj. Reduced, lowered in price; on sale, at discount price.
  • adj. In cookery, of a sauce etc., made more concentrated.

sear

  • adj. Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.
  • v. To char, scorch, or burn the surface of something with a hot instrument.
  • v. To wither; to dry up.
  • v. (figuratively) To mark permanently, as if by burning.
  • n. A scar produced by searing.
  • n. Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled.

sere

  • adj. Without moisture.
  • n. An intermediate stage in an ecosystem prior to advancing to the point of being a climax community.
  • adj. (now rare, archaic, dialectal) Set apart; separate; individual; different; diverse; several; many.
  • n. (obsolete) Claw; talon.

shrivelled

  • adj. Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
  • adj. Collapsed in size.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of shrivel.

shrunken

  • adj. Reduced in size as a result of shrinkage; shrivelled.
  • v. past participle of shrink.

thin

  • adj. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
  • adj. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
  • adj. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
  • adj. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
  • adj. Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
  • adj. (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head…
  • adj. Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
  • adj. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
  • n. (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete…
  • n. Any food produced or served in thin slices.
  • v. (transitive) To make thin or thinner.
  • v. (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
  • v. To dilute.
  • v. To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
  • adv. Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.

withered

  • adj. Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of wither.

wizen

  • adj. wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
  • v. To wither; to become lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.

wizened

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of wizen.
  • adj. Withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.

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