shrivelled

/shriv-uhl/US // ˈʃrɪv əl //UK // (ˈʃrɪvəl) //

干瘪的,干瘪,干枯的,萎缩的

Definitions

1
shriv·eled, shriv·el·ing or shriv·elled, shriv·el·ling.
- : to contract and wrinkle, as from great heat, cold, or dryness.
- : to wither; make or become helpless or useless.

verbdehydrate, dry up

Synonyms

But as European governments cut back on the price they were willing to pay for drugs, European pharmaceutical research shrivelled.
I would rather go to church with Dolly in homespun, than ride in a carriage beside that shrivelled piece of tanned leather.
His skin was shrivelled like that of a preserved fig, and he wore big horn-rimmed spectacles.
A little cringing shrivelled old man stood up in astonishment.
The little shrivelled don who had been omniscient about guns joined in the baiting, and displayed himself a venomous creature.
That magnificent proposition shrivelled to nothing in the black loneliness of that night.

/shriv-uhl/US // ˈʃrɪv əl //UK // (ˈʃrɪvəl) //

干瘪的,干瘪,干枯的,萎缩的

1
shriv·eled, shriv·el·ing or shriv·elled, shriv·el·ling.
- : to contract and wrinkle, as from great heat, cold, or dryness.
- : to wither; make or become helpless or useless.

verbdehydrate, dry up

Synonyms

But as European governments cut back on the price they were willing to pay for drugs, European pharmaceutical research shrivelled.
I would rather go to church with Dolly in homespun, than ride in a carriage beside that shrivelled piece of tanned leather.
His skin was shrivelled like that of a preserved fig, and he wore big horn-rimmed spectacles.
A little cringing shrivelled old man stood up in astonishment.
The little shrivelled don who had been omniscient about guns joined in the baiting, and displayed himself a venomous creature.
That magnificent proposition shrivelled to nothing in the black loneliness of that night.