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shrivel

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
14
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈʃɹɪvəl/

Definition of shrivel

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive)To collapse inward; to crumble.
    “The plant shrivelled from lack of water.”
    “This Upside Down economy was the product, Hansen said, of a shriveling population, the closing of the frontier and the maturing of industries.”
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verb

  1. (intransitive)To collapse inward; to crumble.
    “The plant shrivelled from lack of water.”
    “This Upside Down economy was the product, Hansen said, of a shriveling population, the closing of the frontier and the maturing of industries.”
  2. (intransitive)To become wrinkled.
    “His fingers were shriveled from being in the bath for too long.”
  3. (transitive)To draw into wrinkles.
    “The hot sun shrivelled the leaves.”

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Etymology

First recorded as shriveled (“shrivelled”), probably of North Germanic origin related to dialectal Swedish skryvla (“to wrinkle, shrivel”); perhaps ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną (“to shrivel, shrink”) or *skrimpaną (“to shrink”).

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