Shriveled Synonyms and Antonyms

Decrease in size, range, or extent
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. shrunken
  2. shrunk
Wither, as with a loss of moisture
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. withered
  2. shrunken
  3. wizened
  4. parched
  5. wrinkled
  6. wilted
  7. seared
  8. dehydrated
  9. aged
  10. mummified
Antonyms:
  1. expanded
  2. enlarged
  3. grown
Reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. shrivelled
  2. shrunken
  3. withered
  4. wizen
  5. wizened
(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. sear
  2. dried-up
  3. sere
  4. shrivelled
  5. withered

Shriveled Sentence Examples

  • Her face had shriveled, her upper lip had sunk in, and her eyes were dim.

  • It grew to her height as she watched and then bloomed into an orange-pink flower the size of her head, shriveled and died, and returned.

  • The clever journalist shriveled into the recesses of her mind.

  • Such difficulties hit poor farmers hardest, as they have less access to irrigation, and can least afford the loss from shriveled grain.

  • By 2.8 million years, humid woodland had shriveled away, leaving wide belts of open terrain in its place.

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