单词 | shrivel |
释义 | shriv·el I. intransitive verb 1. < the skin shrivels with age > < the expanding economy would shrivel like a pricked balloon — Lamp > — often used with up < a leaf shrivels up in the hot sun > 2. < all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise — Edith Wharton > transitive verb < one blazing weekend can shrivel the receipts for the stoutest hit — Richard Maney > < filmy clouds which do not always disperse until the sun has risen and shrivelled them — Mary S. Broome > II. |
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