intransitive. Of plants: To dry up, shrivel, wither. Also transferred of persons, their features, etc. See also wizened, adj.

Applied to the drawing together or shrinking and shrivelling up of animal or vegetable tissues, when… In all these uses the past participle clungen…

To wither or shrivel through withdrawal of vital fluid or failure of strength. Obsolete.

intransitive. To become wrinkled or shrivelled; to form wrinkles or small folds. Also with up.

intransitive. To become shrivelled or wrinkled.

intransitive. To suffer or undergo contraction or puckering into wrinkles or small folds; to become corrugated. Also with †together, up.

intransitive. To shrink or shrivel, become contracted or wrinkled. Also figurative. rare.

intransitive. To become contracted and wrinkled or curled up, as from great heat or cold. Also with up, away.

intransitive. To gather or contract into creases, small folds, or bulges; to become drawn together into wrinkles or corrugations. Also with up.

intransitive. To wither, shrink, shrivel. Also with away.

intransitive. To draw together, contract, pucker.

intransitive. To shrink, shrivel. Also transitive (? nonce-use) to cause to shrink.

Chiefly Scottish (Orkney). intransitive. To shrivel or shrink, esp. with age.

intransitive. To shrivel. Also const. up.