SHRIVELLED
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Scrabble
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Definition
verb
- To collapse inward; to crumble.“The plant shrivelled from lack of water.”
- To become wrinkled.“His fingers were shriveled from being in the bath for too long.”
- To draw into wrinkles.“The hot sun shrivelled the leaves.”
adjective
- Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.“A prune is a shrivelled plum.”
- Collapsed in size.
Source: Wiktionary
