shrivelled
adjEtymology Equivalent to shrivel + -ed.
1
UK Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
- A prune is a shrivelled plum.
- All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.1847 December, Acton Bell [pseudonym; Anne Brontë], “The Parsonage”, in Agnes Grey. […], London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 1:
2
UK Collapsed in size.
- Derived terms
- unshrivelled