Definition of shrivel in English:

shrivel

verbshrivelled, shriveling, shrivels, shrivelling, shriveled ˈʃrɪv(ə)lˈʃrɪvəl

1Wrinkle and contract or cause to wrinkle and contract, especially due to loss of moisture.
（尤指由于失去水分而）（使）枯萎；（使）起皱纹；（使）收缩
no object the flowers simply shrivelled up
花完全枯萎了。
with object a heatwave so intense that it shrivelled the grapes in every vineyard
一个强得使所有葡萄园里的葡萄都枯萎的热浪。
Example sentencesExamples
- Fresh walnuts are simply walnuts that have been recently picked from the tree, as opposed to walnuts that have been stored for a while, causing their insides to shrivel and dry up.
- Some of the leaves turned brown and shriveled up.
- Monday night the trend continued and I was cooked for again, after we had lounged about in the Turkish baths for a good long while, until we were so shrivelled up we looked like dead people.
- Everything comes and goes: the plump grapes shrivel or rot; the baby power can fly away in an errant breeze.
- An open can of sardines lay half-buried within the ground, its contents long shrivelled up and well-decayed.
- Like Bhikhu's right arm, this man's leg was shrivelled up.
- Place in a hot oven for 20 minutes or until they just begin to shrivel and blacken on the outside but are still juicy inside.
- And there it was, all shrivelled up, looking at me.
- In good years, the warmth of the sun as it rises kills off the fungus, leaving the grapes shrivelled and unsightly, but tasting delicious: full of the sugar and glycerine which was left behind.
- After birth, the cord was cut, and where it was attached to your body it shrivelled up and formed a scar known as your belly button.
- Jillian felt the covers being ripped off of her and she shriveled up due to the loss of warmth.
- The flesh of his face looked as if it had shrivelled up, then been stretched and stretched to barely cover his bony features.
- The grass upon which he had been laying shriveled up, black and as delicate as stalks of ash.
- In October, when the grapes have shriveled to raisins, Kister sends them off to a packer for processing and marketing.
- The insect then loses water, shrivels, and dies from dehydration.
- ‘I saw a visible gas cloud come down into my back garden one night and the next day my bush had shrivelled up and half of it was dead,’ said another resident.
- ‘Frog legs for breakfast,’ Pierre shriveled up his nose.
- Fran also had a problem with her apricots which shrivelled up when they were very small and Geoff thought the really hot weather might have knocked them off.
- The strawberries may have shrivelled up and the cream long since gone sour, but the action on the tennis courts is just hotting up.
- Because, you know I figured that it would've shriveled up and fallen off by now.
Synonyms
wither, wrinkle, pucker up, shrink
wilt
dry up, desiccate, dehydrate, parch, frazzle, scorch, sear, burn
literary blast
rare exsiccate
withered, dry, dried up, desiccated, dehydrated, wrinkled, puckered, wizened, faded
parched, frazzled, scorched, seared, burnt
literary blasted, sere
rare exsiccated
1. 1.1no object Lose momentum, will, or desire.
  as American interest shrivelled, so did the government's
  就像美国人失去了兴趣，政府亦如此。
  Example sentencesExamples
  My thousand daily cares are like great chains of iron on my spirit, and my soul shrivels inside me as if weeping heart's-blood from a thousand cuts.
  As biodiversity shrivels, we lose a vast store of information and potential cures.
  The perky moment shrivelled as Mr Graham glared at him.
  Prison don't make ya tough, it makes ya weak, your spirit just shrivels up inside.
  But as she walked between the huge pylons of the temple, Miri's soul shrivelled inside her.
  Juliet almost ignored him completely at this point, and Austin could feel his heart shrivelling up inside him.
  I felt my insides curl and shrivel into oblivion.
  His voice broke piteously, but Bahzell only gazed down with flinty eyes, and something inside the landlord shriveled under their dreadful promise.
  As if Mr. Asa could read my thoughts, he bowed his head, then looked up at me with moist eyes, and I felt something shrivel inside.
  I'll just wither and wane under all that pressure and shrivel up inside until I'm microscopic.
  Somehow, somewhere between Orchard Road, Raffles City and Chinatown markets my sense of financial responsibility lost its oxygen supply, shrivelled up and died discreetly.
  For a second, Curri-San thought they must be near some kind of underground lake of some kind, but then what he heard next made his heart wrench and his stomach shrivel inside of him.
  After one year, tourism is non-existent, foreign investment in Israeli high tech has shriveled up, and the country faces an uncertain future.
  He wasn't going to completely ruin her night, even if something inside of her continued to shrivel and die whenever he sent his blazing gaze in her direction.
  In most cases, her shame would be all but shriveled up by now.
  She smiled, pretending to be as confident as Tiffany, but inside she was shriveling.
  Some believe in a God who is indifferent to the world and when they find themselves alone as all of us do at some time or other, they shrivel up and die inside from the indifference they feel in the world around them.
  On the eve of the 1984 strike, however, the number of deep coal miners in Scotland had dwindled away to barely 14,000-a figure which itself shrivelled to less than 3,000 in the hard years after the conflict.
  He said in the court, when the interrogator pounds the desk he said it just shrivels me up inside.
  The marble floor may have lost its gleam and the shop itself shrivelled in size, but seated behind his corner desk here is Jitender Nath, who knows - and perhaps rightly - that some things will never change.
  Synonyms
  abate, lessen, decrease, dwindle, diminish, ease up, let up, trail off, wane, ebb, subside, peter out, melt away, fizzle out, taper off, tail off, grow dim, grow faint
2. 1.2with object Cause to feel worthless or insignificant.
  〈喻〉使觉得无用；使觉得渺小
  she shrivelled him with one glance
  她瞥了他一眼，让他觉得自己一钱不值。
  Example sentencesExamples
  FDR and Churchill led the world against Hitler, but it may have taken a Jewish comedian, Mel Brooks, to shrivel him to comic insignificance in The Producers.

Origin

Mid 16th century: perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare with Swedish dialect skryvla 'to wrinkle'.

shrink from Old English:
Old English scrincan, of Germanic origin, is related to Swedish skrynka ‘to wrinkle’. The sense ‘draw back’ in an action of recoiling in abhorrence or timidity dates from the early 16th century. Shrivel (mid 16th century) comes from a related Scandinavian word. In the informal sense ‘a psychiatrist’ shrink is a shortening of headshrinker. The longer form appeared in print in 1950, and shrink itself in 1966. A headshrinker was originally a head-hunter who preserved and shrank human heads.

Rhymes

civil, drivel, snivel, swivel

Definition of shrivel in US English:

shrivel

verbˈʃrɪvəlˈSHrivəl

1Wrinkle and contract or cause to wrinkle and contract, especially due to loss of moisture.
（尤指由于失去水分而）（使）枯萎；（使）起皱纹；（使）收缩
no object the flowers simply shriveled up
花完全枯萎了。
with object a heat wave so intense that it shriveled the grapes in every vineyard
一个强得使所有葡萄园里的葡萄都枯萎的热浪。
Example sentencesExamples
- Fran also had a problem with her apricots which shrivelled up when they were very small and Geoff thought the really hot weather might have knocked them off.
- Monday night the trend continued and I was cooked for again, after we had lounged about in the Turkish baths for a good long while, until we were so shrivelled up we looked like dead people.
- Everything comes and goes: the plump grapes shrivel or rot; the baby power can fly away in an errant breeze.
- ‘I saw a visible gas cloud come down into my back garden one night and the next day my bush had shrivelled up and half of it was dead,’ said another resident.
- The insect then loses water, shrivels, and dies from dehydration.
- The grass upon which he had been laying shriveled up, black and as delicate as stalks of ash.
- Fresh walnuts are simply walnuts that have been recently picked from the tree, as opposed to walnuts that have been stored for a while, causing their insides to shrivel and dry up.
- Place in a hot oven for 20 minutes or until they just begin to shrivel and blacken on the outside but are still juicy inside.
- After birth, the cord was cut, and where it was attached to your body it shrivelled up and formed a scar known as your belly button.
- Jillian felt the covers being ripped off of her and she shriveled up due to the loss of warmth.
- In October, when the grapes have shriveled to raisins, Kister sends them off to a packer for processing and marketing.
- Like Bhikhu's right arm, this man's leg was shrivelled up.
- The flesh of his face looked as if it had shrivelled up, then been stretched and stretched to barely cover his bony features.
- The strawberries may have shrivelled up and the cream long since gone sour, but the action on the tennis courts is just hotting up.
- In good years, the warmth of the sun as it rises kills off the fungus, leaving the grapes shrivelled and unsightly, but tasting delicious: full of the sugar and glycerine which was left behind.
- Some of the leaves turned brown and shriveled up.
- And there it was, all shrivelled up, looking at me.
- Because, you know I figured that it would've shriveled up and fallen off by now.
- An open can of sardines lay half-buried within the ground, its contents long shrivelled up and well-decayed.
- ‘Frog legs for breakfast,’ Pierre shriveled up his nose.
Synonyms
wither, wrinkle, pucker up, shrink
withered, dry, dried up, desiccated, dehydrated, wrinkled, puckered, wizened, faded
1. 1.1no object Lose momentum, will, or desire; become insignificant or ineffectual.
  〈喻〉失去动力（或意志、愿望）；变得无用；变得无效
  his spirit shriveled and his talent atrophied
  Example sentencesExamples
  I'll just wither and wane under all that pressure and shrivel up inside until I'm microscopic.
  The marble floor may have lost its gleam and the shop itself shrivelled in size, but seated behind his corner desk here is Jitender Nath, who knows - and perhaps rightly - that some things will never change.
  Prison don't make ya tough, it makes ya weak, your spirit just shrivels up inside.
  He said in the court, when the interrogator pounds the desk he said it just shrivels me up inside.
  But as she walked between the huge pylons of the temple, Miri's soul shrivelled inside her.
  On the eve of the 1984 strike, however, the number of deep coal miners in Scotland had dwindled away to barely 14,000-a figure which itself shrivelled to less than 3,000 in the hard years after the conflict.
  Some believe in a God who is indifferent to the world and when they find themselves alone as all of us do at some time or other, they shrivel up and die inside from the indifference they feel in the world around them.
  The perky moment shrivelled as Mr Graham glared at him.
  Somehow, somewhere between Orchard Road, Raffles City and Chinatown markets my sense of financial responsibility lost its oxygen supply, shrivelled up and died discreetly.
  As if Mr. Asa could read my thoughts, he bowed his head, then looked up at me with moist eyes, and I felt something shrivel inside.
  In most cases, her shame would be all but shriveled up by now.
  After one year, tourism is non-existent, foreign investment in Israeli high tech has shriveled up, and the country faces an uncertain future.
  Juliet almost ignored him completely at this point, and Austin could feel his heart shrivelling up inside him.
  My thousand daily cares are like great chains of iron on my spirit, and my soul shrivels inside me as if weeping heart's-blood from a thousand cuts.
  For a second, Curri-San thought they must be near some kind of underground lake of some kind, but then what he heard next made his heart wrench and his stomach shrivel inside of him.
  His voice broke piteously, but Bahzell only gazed down with flinty eyes, and something inside the landlord shriveled under their dreadful promise.
  As biodiversity shrivels, we lose a vast store of information and potential cures.
  He wasn't going to completely ruin her night, even if something inside of her continued to shrivel and die whenever he sent his blazing gaze in her direction.
  I felt my insides curl and shrivel into oblivion.
  She smiled, pretending to be as confident as Tiffany, but inside she was shriveling.
  Synonyms
  abate, lessen, decrease, dwindle, diminish, ease up, let up, trail off, wane, ebb, subside, peter out, melt away, fizzle out, taper off, tail off, grow dim, grow faint
2. 1.2with object Cause to feel worthless or insignificant.
  〈喻〉使觉得无用；使觉得渺小
  she shriveled him with one glance
  她瞥了他一眼，让他觉得自己一钱不值。
  Example sentencesExamples
  FDR and Churchill led the world against Hitler, but it may have taken a Jewish comedian, Mel Brooks, to shrivel him to comic insignificance in The Producers.

Origin

Mid 16th century: perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare with Swedish dialect skryvla ‘to wrinkle’.

词汇	shrivel
释义	Definition of shrivel in English: shrivel verbshrivelled, shriveling, shrivels, shrivelling, shriveled ˈʃrɪv(ə)lˈʃrɪvəl 1Wrinkle and contract or cause to wrinkle and contract, especially due to loss of moisture. （尤指由于失去水分而）（使）枯萎；（使）起皱纹；（使）收缩 no object the flowers simply shrivelled up 花完全枯萎了。 with object a heatwave so intense that it shrivelled the grapes in every vineyard 一个强得使所有葡萄园里的葡萄都枯萎的热浪。 Example sentencesExamples Fresh walnuts are simply walnuts that have been recently picked from the tree, as opposed to walnuts that have been stored for a while, causing their insides to shrivel and dry up. Some of the leaves turned brown and shriveled up. Monday night the trend continued and I was cooked for again, after we had lounged about in the Turkish baths for a good long while, until we were so shrivelled up we looked like dead people. Everything comes and goes: the plump grapes shrivel or rot; the baby power can fly away in an errant breeze. An open can of sardines lay half-buried within the ground, its contents long shrivelled up and well-decayed. Like Bhikhu's right arm, this man's leg was shrivelled up. Place in a hot oven for 20 minutes or until they just begin to shrivel and blacken on the outside but are still juicy inside. And there it was, all shrivelled up, looking at me. In good years, the warmth of the sun as it rises kills off the fungus, leaving the grapes shrivelled and unsightly, but tasting delicious: full of the sugar and glycerine which was left behind. After birth, the cord was cut, and where it was attached to your body it shrivelled up and formed a scar known as your belly button. Jillian felt the covers being ripped off of her and she shriveled up due to the loss of warmth. The flesh of his face looked as if it had shrivelled up, then been stretched and stretched to barely cover his bony features. The grass upon which he had been laying shriveled up, black and as delicate as stalks of ash. In October, when the grapes have shriveled to raisins, Kister sends them off to a packer for processing and marketing. The insect then loses water, shrivels, and dies from dehydration. ‘I saw a visible gas cloud come down into my back garden one night and the next day my bush had shrivelled up and half of it was dead,’ said another resident. ‘Frog legs for breakfast,’ Pierre shriveled up his nose. Fran also had a problem with her apricots which shrivelled up when they were very small and Geoff thought the really hot weather might have knocked them off. The strawberries may have shrivelled up and the cream long since gone sour, but the action on the tennis courts is just hotting up. Because, you know I figured that it would've shriveled up and fallen off by now. Synonyms wither, wrinkle, pucker up, shrink wilt dry up, desiccate, dehydrate, parch, frazzle, scorch, sear, burn literary blast rare exsiccate withered, dry, dried up, desiccated, dehydrated, wrinkled, puckered, wizened, faded parched, frazzled, scorched, seared, burnt literary blasted, sere rare exsiccated 1.1no object Lose momentum, will, or desire. as American interest shrivelled, so did the government's 就像美国人失去了兴趣，政府亦如此。 Example sentencesExamples My thousand daily cares are like great chains of iron on my spirit, and my soul shrivels inside me as if weeping heart's-blood from a thousand cuts. As biodiversity shrivels, we lose a vast store of information and potential cures. The perky moment shrivelled as Mr Graham glared at him. Prison don't make ya tough, it makes ya weak, your spirit just shrivels up inside. But as she walked between the huge pylons of the temple, Miri's soul shrivelled inside her. Juliet almost ignored him completely at this point, and Austin could feel his heart shrivelling up inside him. I felt my insides curl and shrivel into oblivion. His voice broke piteously, but Bahzell only gazed down with flinty eyes, and something inside the landlord shriveled under their dreadful promise. As if Mr. Asa could read my thoughts, he bowed his head, then looked up at me with moist eyes, and I felt something shrivel inside. I'll just wither and wane under all that pressure and shrivel up inside until I'm microscopic. Somehow, somewhere between Orchard Road, Raffles City and Chinatown markets my sense of financial responsibility lost its oxygen supply, shrivelled up and died discreetly. For a second, Curri-San thought they must be near some kind of underground lake of some kind, but then what he heard next made his heart wrench and his stomach shrivel inside of him. After one year, tourism is non-existent, foreign investment in Israeli high tech has shriveled up, and the country faces an uncertain future. He wasn't going to completely ruin her night, even if something inside of her continued to shrivel and die whenever he sent his blazing gaze in her direction. In most cases, her shame would be all but shriveled up by now. She smiled, pretending to be as confident as Tiffany, but inside she was shriveling. Some believe in a God who is indifferent to the world and when they find themselves alone as all of us do at some time or other, they shrivel up and die inside from the indifference they feel in the world around them. On the eve of the 1984 strike, however, the number of deep coal miners in Scotland had dwindled away to barely 14,000-a figure which itself shrivelled to less than 3,000 in the hard years after the conflict. He said in the court, when the interrogator pounds the desk he said it just shrivels me up inside. The marble floor may have lost its gleam and the shop itself shrivelled in size, but seated behind his corner desk here is Jitender Nath, who knows - and perhaps rightly - that some things will never change. Synonyms abate, lessen, decrease, dwindle, diminish, ease up, let up, trail off, wane, ebb, subside, peter out, melt away, fizzle out, taper off, tail off, grow dim, grow faint 1.2with object Cause to feel worthless or insignificant. 〈喻〉使觉得无用；使觉得渺小 she shrivelled him with one glance 她瞥了他一眼，让他觉得自己一钱不值。 Example sentencesExamples FDR and Churchill led the world against Hitler, but it may have taken a Jewish comedian, Mel Brooks, to shrivel him to comic insignificance in The Producers. Origin Mid 16th century: perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare with Swedish dialect skryvla 'to wrinkle'. shrink from Old English: Old English scrincan, of Germanic origin, is related to Swedish skrynka ‘to wrinkle’. The sense ‘draw back’ in an action of recoiling in abhorrence or timidity dates from the early 16th century. Shrivel (mid 16th century) comes from a related Scandinavian word. In the informal sense ‘a psychiatrist’ shrink is a shortening of headshrinker. The longer form appeared in print in 1950, and shrink itself in 1966. A headshrinker was originally a head-hunter who preserved and shrank human heads. Rhymes civil, drivel, snivel, swivel Definition of shrivel in US English: shrivel verbˈʃrɪvəlˈSHrivəl 1Wrinkle and contract or cause to wrinkle and contract, especially due to loss of moisture. （尤指由于失去水分而）（使）枯萎；（使）起皱纹；（使）收缩 no object the flowers simply shriveled up 花完全枯萎了。 with object a heat wave so intense that it shriveled the grapes in every vineyard 一个强得使所有葡萄园里的葡萄都枯萎的热浪。 Example sentencesExamples Fran also had a problem with her apricots which shrivelled up when they were very small and Geoff thought the really hot weather might have knocked them off. Monday night the trend continued and I was cooked for again, after we had lounged about in the Turkish baths for a good long while, until we were so shrivelled up we looked like dead people. Everything comes and goes: the plump grapes shrivel or rot; the baby power can fly away in an errant breeze. ‘I saw a visible gas cloud come down into my back garden one night and the next day my bush had shrivelled up and half of it was dead,’ said another resident. The insect then loses water, shrivels, and dies from dehydration. The grass upon which he had been laying shriveled up, black and as delicate as stalks of ash. Fresh walnuts are simply walnuts that have been recently picked from the tree, as opposed to walnuts that have been stored for a while, causing their insides to shrivel and dry up. Place in a hot oven for 20 minutes or until they just begin to shrivel and blacken on the outside but are still juicy inside. After birth, the cord was cut, and where it was attached to your body it shrivelled up and formed a scar known as your belly button. Jillian felt the covers being ripped off of her and she shriveled up due to the loss of warmth. In October, when the grapes have shriveled to raisins, Kister sends them off to a packer for processing and marketing. Like Bhikhu's right arm, this man's leg was shrivelled up. The flesh of his face looked as if it had shrivelled up, then been stretched and stretched to barely cover his bony features. The strawberries may have shrivelled up and the cream long since gone sour, but the action on the tennis courts is just hotting up. In good years, the warmth of the sun as it rises kills off the fungus, leaving the grapes shrivelled and unsightly, but tasting delicious: full of the sugar and glycerine which was left behind. Some of the leaves turned brown and shriveled up. And there it was, all shrivelled up, looking at me. Because, you know I figured that it would've shriveled up and fallen off by now. An open can of sardines lay half-buried within the ground, its contents long shrivelled up and well-decayed. ‘Frog legs for breakfast,’ Pierre shriveled up his nose. Synonyms wither, wrinkle, pucker up, shrink withered, dry, dried up, desiccated, dehydrated, wrinkled, puckered, wizened, faded 1.1no object Lose momentum, will, or desire; become insignificant or ineffectual. 〈喻〉失去动力（或意志、愿望）；变得无用；变得无效 his spirit shriveled and his talent atrophied Example sentencesExamples I'll just wither and wane under all that pressure and shrivel up inside until I'm microscopic. The marble floor may have lost its gleam and the shop itself shrivelled in size, but seated behind his corner desk here is Jitender Nath, who knows - and perhaps rightly - that some things will never change. Prison don't make ya tough, it makes ya weak, your spirit just shrivels up inside. He said in the court, when the interrogator pounds the desk he said it just shrivels me up inside. But as she walked between the huge pylons of the temple, Miri's soul shrivelled inside her. On the eve of the 1984 strike, however, the number of deep coal miners in Scotland had dwindled away to barely 14,000-a figure which itself shrivelled to less than 3,000 in the hard years after the conflict. Some believe in a God who is indifferent to the world and when they find themselves alone as all of us do at some time or other, they shrivel up and die inside from the indifference they feel in the world around them. The perky moment shrivelled as Mr Graham glared at him. Somehow, somewhere between Orchard Road, Raffles City and Chinatown markets my sense of financial responsibility lost its oxygen supply, shrivelled up and died discreetly. As if Mr. Asa could read my thoughts, he bowed his head, then looked up at me with moist eyes, and I felt something shrivel inside. In most cases, her shame would be all but shriveled up by now. After one year, tourism is non-existent, foreign investment in Israeli high tech has shriveled up, and the country faces an uncertain future. Juliet almost ignored him completely at this point, and Austin could feel his heart shrivelling up inside him. My thousand daily cares are like great chains of iron on my spirit, and my soul shrivels inside me as if weeping heart's-blood from a thousand cuts. For a second, Curri-San thought they must be near some kind of underground lake of some kind, but then what he heard next made his heart wrench and his stomach shrivel inside of him. His voice broke piteously, but Bahzell only gazed down with flinty eyes, and something inside the landlord shriveled under their dreadful promise. As biodiversity shrivels, we lose a vast store of information and potential cures. He wasn't going to completely ruin her night, even if something inside of her continued to shrivel and die whenever he sent his blazing gaze in her direction. I felt my insides curl and shrivel into oblivion. She smiled, pretending to be as confident as Tiffany, but inside she was shriveling. Synonyms abate, lessen, decrease, dwindle, diminish, ease up, let up, trail off, wane, ebb, subside, peter out, melt away, fizzle out, taper off, tail off, grow dim, grow faint 1.2with object Cause to feel worthless or insignificant. 〈喻〉使觉得无用；使觉得渺小 she shriveled him with one glance 她瞥了他一眼，让他觉得自己一钱不值。 Example sentencesExamples FDR and Churchill led the world against Hitler, but it may have taken a Jewish comedian, Mel Brooks, to shrivel him to comic insignificance in The Producers. Origin Mid 16th century: perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare with Swedish dialect skryvla ‘to wrinkle’.
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