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Definition of Shrivel

Shrivel
Shrivel Shriv"el, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shriveledor 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.
Shrivel
Shrivel Shriv"el, v. t. To cause to shrivel or contract; to cause to shrink onto corruptions.

Meaning of Shrivel from wikipedia

- Shrivelling is a natural phenomenon where an object, with an attached sub-elastic covering, has its interior volume reduced in some way. The covering...
- Abalone shriveling syndrome-****ociated virus was described in 2010 from an abalone which had died from abalone shriveling syndrome. While the ICTV does...
- following a two-year absence. By February 1977, Devo were also performing "Shrivel-Up" live, as well as early versions of "Uncontrollable Urge," "Praying...
- broadcast under Niyazov began with a pledge that the broadcaster's tongue will shrivel if he slanders the country, flag, or president. Religious minorities are...
- the last thirty years of global neoliberalism have witnessed a rapid shriveling of social programs that protect citizens from cyclical instability and...
- meaning to contract or wrinkle; and the Old Norse skorpna, meaning to shrivel up, or skreppa, meaning a thin person. It is not clear where the term prawn...
- solution which has a solute concentration higher than its own, it will shrivel, and if it is put in a solution with a lower solute concentration than...
- If its tentacles are broken off, they can grow back quickly. Its body shrivels up while outside of water, but its poison does not. Though it is visually...
- strung on the thread and hung, usually behind a wood stove, until they shrivel giving the appearance of "leather britches". They can be dried other ways...
- "horrific and murderous witch's hammer", and exclaimed: Which hand would not shrivel, that shackled itself and us in such a way? At the end of his speech, Scheidemann...