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单词 shrivelled
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Definition of shrivelled in English:

shrivelled

(US shriveled)
adjective ˈʃrɪvldˈʃrɪv(ə)ld
  • Wrinkled and shrunken, especially as a result of loss of moisture or old age.

    a handful of shrivelled leaves
    his shrivelled limbs
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Avoid very shriveled dates, or dates with sugar crystals on the skin.
    • Indeed I was greeted in Italian by a shrivelled old lady in a white habit.
    • It spends most of its life buried deep in the soil in a shriveled, torpid state.
    • The shriveled black olives are then vacuumed up with machines that look like street cleaners.
    • Victims can be left with disfigured or shrivelled limbs.
    • Sitting in the wheelchair is a young woman with a pretty face and two shriveled legs.
    • They are dry and stiff, with the shriveled remnants of once green leaves hanging dejectedly from their limbs.
    • Brown and shriveled canes stand out like sore thumbs.
    • A shrivelled woman, Yasmin, spoke for them.
    • A hunched, shriveled woman tries to push a bottle into a recycling bin.
    • The resultant plants were nothing more than shriveled clumps.
    • Out in the sticks last weekend, the sheep looked like shrivelled prunes on legs.
    • They lie together, one resting gently on the arm of the other, their shrivelled dark brown limbs entangled.
    • The stalks that remain support runty, shriveled buds.
    • Both diseases result in lightweight, shriveled kernels that may be moldy.
    • Buy soft fruit with wrinkled and shriveled skin.
    • He sees the crops withered through drought and devoured by pests on a shrivelled land struggling to escape the paralysis of famine.
    • The leaves die, of course, and in their shriveled state present no threat when it snows.
    • The animal contracts, loses water, and takes on a shriveled, wrinkled appearance.
    • Her poor shriveled body cells were kept alive artifically.
 
 

Definition of shriveled in US English:

shriveled

(British shrivelled)
adjectiveˈSHriv(ə)ldˈʃrɪv(ə)ld
  • Wrinkled and contracted, especially due to loss of moisture or old age.

    her long, shriveled hand
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her poor shriveled body cells were kept alive artifically.
    • They are dry and stiff, with the shriveled remnants of once green leaves hanging dejectedly from their limbs.
    • The leaves die, of course, and in their shriveled state present no threat when it snows.
    • He sees the crops withered through drought and devoured by pests on a shrivelled land struggling to escape the paralysis of famine.
    • Both diseases result in lightweight, shriveled kernels that may be moldy.
    • It spends most of its life buried deep in the soil in a shriveled, torpid state.
    • The animal contracts, loses water, and takes on a shriveled, wrinkled appearance.
    • A shrivelled woman, Yasmin, spoke for them.
    • They lie together, one resting gently on the arm of the other, their shrivelled dark brown limbs entangled.
    • The resultant plants were nothing more than shriveled clumps.
    • Out in the sticks last weekend, the sheep looked like shrivelled prunes on legs.
    • The shriveled black olives are then vacuumed up with machines that look like street cleaners.
    • The stalks that remain support runty, shriveled buds.
    • Sitting in the wheelchair is a young woman with a pretty face and two shriveled legs.
    • Victims can be left with disfigured or shrivelled limbs.
    • Brown and shriveled canes stand out like sore thumbs.
    • Buy soft fruit with wrinkled and shriveled skin.
    • Indeed I was greeted in Italian by a shrivelled old lady in a white habit.
    • A hunched, shriveled woman tries to push a bottle into a recycling bin.
    • Avoid very shriveled dates, or dates with sugar crystals on the skin.
 
 
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