SHRIVELLED — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
shrivelled
Reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity.
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- Our shriveled receipts during the storm.
- As the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled.
- The dollar's shrunken buying power.
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.
(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.
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