Of the body or limbs: Drawn together, shrunken (with paralysis, etc.). Obsolete.

Of men and animals: Physically shrunken, shrivelled, wasted, or decayed; deprived of animal vitality or vigour.

withered or dried up.

figurative. Dry and stiff, withered, sapless. Obsolete.

Made smaller, lessened: see the verb. (†In quot. 1607, Lowered in condition, weakened, wasted, emaciated.) diminished return (cf. diminishing, adj.…

Of persons whose skin is wrinkled or whose limbs are withered or ‘dried up’.

‘pinched’, wasted, shrivelled.

Withered.

Pathology. Of a tissue, part of the body, etc.: desiccated and hardened as the result of a pathological process. Of a cell viewed under the…