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• v  wither, as with a loss of moisture
  The fruit dried and shriveled
• v  decrease in size, range, or extent
• s  (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
  shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings
• s  lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
  the old woman's shriveled skin
  he looked shriveled and ill
• s  reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity
  our shriveled receipts during the storm
  as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled

• But this summer the box-office take of his movies shriveled to flop size.
• As Ohios manufacturing economy shriveled, his most identifiable initiative was a minuscule literacy campaign.
• As Ohio's manufacturing economy shriveled, his most identifiable initiative was a minuscule literacy campaign.

• shrivel
• shrivel up
• shrink
• wither
• dried-up
• sere
• sear
• shrivelled
• withered
• shrunken
• wizen
• wizened

News & Articles

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• Nordic Games acquires two Atari intellectual properties
  Nordic Games announced this morning it has obtained the intellectual property rights to Desperados and Silver . Both IPs were purchased from the latest crusty incarnation of Atari , a shriveled golem given life by licensing, currently chopping off its limbs and selling itself in pieces . Desperados was a Wild West stealth tactics game that had two installments in 2001 and 2006, both developed by ...
  June 24, 2013 - Joystiq

Quotes

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• Stephen Colbert in Boston Herald
  Munching on the snack, Colbert said, "America needs a prune. It may not be a young, sexy plum. Granted, it is shriveled and, at times, hard to swallow, but this dried-up old fruit has the experience we need."
• Charles Grassley in FOXNews
  From a small-business standpoint, the House bill was a peanut shell, the Senate bill was peanuts, and the conference agreement is a single shriveled peanut. It is a missed opportunity,said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.
• Davy Crockett in Reporter-Times
  In 1835 Davy Crockett described Martin Van Buren's baldness as "his face is a good deal shriveled," called him "dung" and as "secret, sly, selfish, cold, calculating; a dandy." "When he enters the senate chamber in the morning he...