used especially of vegetation Having lost all moisture.

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

Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.

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

Reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity.

synonyms: shriveled, shrunken.

Wither, as with a loss of moisture:
— The fruit dried and shriveled.

synonyms: shrink, shrivel up, wither.

Roget 195: become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease etc. 36; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay etc. (deteriorate) 659.    be smaller than, fall short of; not come up to etc. (be inferior) 34.    render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate^†; boil down; constrict, constringe^†; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf^†; shorten etc. 201; circumscribe etc. 229; restrain etc. 751.    [reduce in size by abrasion or paring. ] (subtraction) 38 abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.    ... show more

Dutch: indrogen, ineenschrompelen, schrompelen, verdorren, verschrompelen

Decrease in size, range, or extent:
— My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me.

synonym: shrink.