used especially of vegetation Having lost all moisture:
— Shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings.

synonyms: dried-up, sear, sere, shrivelled, withered.

Roget 203: narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like etc. (filament) 205; finespun^†, gossamer; paper-thin; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate, incapacious^†; contracted etc. 195; unexpanded etc. (expand) etc. 194^†; slender as a thread.    [in reference to people or animals] emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent^†; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky [U.S.]; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake [Chaucer]; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.    attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid^†, marcid^†, barebone, rawboned.    monomolecular.    ... show more

Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness:
— The old woman's shriveled skin.
— He looked shriveled and ill.

synonyms: shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened.

Reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity:
— Our shriveled receipts during the storm.
— As the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled.

synonyms: shrivelled, shrunken.