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Definition of Shriveling

Shriveling
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.

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- manufacturers shrivel grapes by drying (desiccating) them. Shriveled squid Sequence of images showing a peach decaying and shriveling over a period of...
- Abalone shriveling syndrome-****ociated virus was described in 2010 from an abalone which had died from abalone shriveling syndrome. While the ICTV does...
- 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...
- 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...
- "The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his ch****, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue;...
- family. It was described as similar to a "piece of leather or a small, shriveled eel". Napoleon was exiled to Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean after...
- the last thirty years of global neoliberalism have witnessed a rapid shriveling of social programs that protect citizens from cyclical instability and...
- found in the skull of a 12 to 14-year-old girl. Although the brains were shriveled, they were well preserved due to the climate found inside the cave. Early...
- flower" instead of the more probable "black pod" because the matured fruit shrivels and turns a dark color shortly after being picked. For the Aztecs, much...
- their meadow, round them heaps of corpses rotting away, rags of skin shriveling on their bones." As linguist Jane Ellen Harrison (1850–1928) notes of...