shrivel in English

verb
1
wrinkle and contract or cause to wrinkle and contract, especially due to loss of moisture.
the flowers simply shriveled up

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1. He's starting to shrivel up.

2. Soon it would shrivel away.

3. The leaves change colour, then shrivel.

4. May the gods shrivel your cock.

5. The tetrads eventually shrivel or are resorbed.

6. It should shrivel in ineptitude.. Prime target.

7. Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.

8. The steel companies seem to want to shrivel, to disappear.

9. The penis is the first to shrivel when it's cold.

10. An animal cell in a _____solution will shrivel up or Crenate

11. 22 What was meant for a joyous occasion would shrivel to a general wretchedness.

12. The paper would shrivel and blaze at every touch of the fiery pen.

13. What was meant for a joyous occasion would shrivel to a general wretchedness.

14. These microscopic biting flies would dry and shrivel in minutes out in the sun.

15. Why do Kate's onions grow so well, while mine shrivel and rot in the ground?

16. Probably should have held my tongue, but I just couldn't resist the chance to see him shrivel.

17. Her anger, newly kindled, needed something to scorch and shrivel before it could be extinguished.

18. Though not many positions shrivel to zero, funds do suffer 2 % losses all the time.

19. (Psalm 37:2) Green new grass may look pretty, but the blades soon shrivel and die.

20. When not in use, these bottles might shrivel up if hung near a fire in a room lacking a chimney.

21. Karen says: “I don’t know how to express what it is like to watch the once handsome man you love and intend to live with forever slowly melt away and shrivel to skin and bones.

22. (when intr, often foll by up) to collapse or cause to collapse his courage Crumpled (when tr, often foll by up ) to crush or cause to be crushed so as to form wrinkles or creases (intr) to shrink; shrivel

23. SAlivary gland ablation is a procedure performed by an interventional radiologist during which drugs are injected into the major sAlivary glands (submandibular, sublingual, and parotid glands), causing the sAlivary gland tissue to shrivel up and turn to scar tissue.

24. Crumple (v.) early 14c., cromplen, Crumplen, "press into irregular folds, rumple, wrinkle," also intransitive, "contract into wrinkles, shrink, shrivel," frequentative of crumpen "to curl up" (from Old English crump "bent, crooked"), from Proto-Germanic *krumbo- "to press, squeeze, compress" (source also of German krumm "crooked, warped").

25. To say the truth, whether it were chance, or skill, or downright witchcraft, there was something wonderfully human in this ridiculous shape, Bedizened with its tattered finery; and as for the countenance, it appeared to shrivel its yellow surface into a grin--a funny kind of expression betwixt scorn and merriment, as if it understood itself to

26. Crumple (v.) early 14c., cromplen, Crumplen, "press into irregular folds, rumple, wrinkle," also intransitive, "contract into wrinkles, shrink, shrivel," frequentative of crumpen "to curl up" (from Old English crump "bent, crooked"), from Proto-Germanic *krumbo- "to press, squeeze, compress" (source also of German krumm "crooked, warped").

27. Page 174 what are called the "Baulks," or hard ground, between the drills, as the ground must be kept open to admit moisture and air, without which the young plants would shrivel up and die.Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Now In England