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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
shriveled
1. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture (Freq. 1)
- dried-up grass
- the desert was edged with sere vegetation
- shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings
- withered vines
• Syn:
dried-up, sere, sear, shrivelled, withered
• Similar to:
dry
• Derivationally related forms:
sereness (for: sere)
• Topics:
vegetation, flora, botany
2. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
- 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
• Syn:
shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened
• Similar to:
thin, lean
3. reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity
- our shriveled receipts during the storm
- as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled
- the dollar's shrunken buying power
• Syn:
shrivelled, shrunken
• Similar to:
decreased, reduced
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