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 shrivelled 添加此单词到默认生词本
adj. 皱缩的
v. 使…束手无策(shrivel的过去式)

  1. He has a shrivelled face.
    他有一张满是皱纹的脸。
  2. The hot sunshine shrivelled the grass.
    炎热的阳光使草枯萎了。
  3. It is shrivelled and leather-like from the embalming process.
    经过药物保存处理的面部干瘪如皮革。


shrivelled
[ adj ]
  1. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture

  2. <adj.all>
    dried-up grass
    the desert was edged with sere vegetation
    shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings
    withered vines
  3. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness

  4. <adj.all>
    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
    he did well despite his withered arm
    a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair
  5. reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity

  6. <adj.all>
    our shriveled receipts during the storm
    as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled
    the dollar's shrunken buying power


Shrivel \Shriv"el\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shriveled}or
{Shrivelled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shriveling} or {Shrivelling}.]
[Probably akin to shrimp, shrink; cf. dial. AS. screpa to
pine away, Norw. skrypa to waste, skryp, skryv, transitory,
frail, Sw. skr["o]pling feeble, Dan. skr["o]belig, Icel.
skrj?pr brittle, frail.]
To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form
corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin
shrivels with age; -- often with up.

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