What is another word for shrivelled?

Pronunciation: [ʃɹˈɪvə͡ld] (IPA)

Shrivelled is a word that describes something that has become dry, wrinkled, and smaller than it was originally. There are several synonyms for this word that can be used to describe a similar type of physical change. Some synonyms for shrivelled include withered, dried up, shrunken, wilted, and desiccated. These words can be used interchangeably with shrivelled when describing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or even human skin. It is important to choose the right synonym for the context so that the intended meaning is conveyed accurately. By using different synonyms for shrivelled, writers and speakers can vary their language and create a more engaging and descriptive narrative.

What are the hypernyms for Shrivelled?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for shrivelled?

The word "shrivelled" refers to something that has become small, dry and wrinkled due to loss of moisture or vitality. Its antonyms are the words that have the opposite meaning to it. Some of the antonyms for shrivelled are - plump, fresh, juicy, hydrated, blooming, radiant, turgid, bulging, plump, thriving, and flourishing. When something is plump or hydrated, it has a fullness and vitality to it. Fresh and juicy imply that something is full of life and vigor. Blooming and radiant suggest the health and vitality of something, while turgid, bulging or thriving indicate growth and abundance. All of these words are antonyms for shrivelled, and suggest something that is full of life and energy.

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Usage examples for Shrivelled

I could not discover any insect beneath the specimens of Sir Thomas Mitchell's production in a state sufficient to determine what it really is, as I only found one or two exceedingly minute atoms of shrivelled up insects.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
It was believed by some people that such shrivelled up wretches had no bowels.
"Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks"
William Elliot Griffis
To Tommy one element in the business was all-important; before it the other elements shrivelled into nothing.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay

Famous quotes with Shrivelled

  • I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us.
    Monica Bellucci
  • What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind- the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
    Marie Dressler
  • With thy coming Melody was come. This was thy lot, to feel, create, bestow, And that immeasurable life to know From which the fleshly self falls shrivelled, dead, A seed primeval that has forests bred.
    George Eliot
  • Poverty is a terrible thing when it bows to the very ground the pride of the strong man—a terrible thing when it leaves old age destitute: till, the strong man may yet redeem his fortunes, and that old age may have had enjoyment while it was capable of enjoying. But a child, with the step slow from weakness, which from its age should be so buoyant; a cheek thin and white from hunger, at a period which especially cares for food (for all children are greedy); a form shrivelled with cold; a growth stopped by work too laborious for such tender years; a spirit broken by toil, want, and harshness; —is not such a child poverty's most miserable spectacle? It is, however, a common one.
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • According to … the French counterrevolutionaries and German Romantics, … the corpus of prejudices was a country’s cultural treasure, its ancient and tested intelligence, present as the consciousness and guardian of its thought. Prejudices were the “we” of every “I”, the past in the present, the revered vessels of the nation’s memory, its judgements carried from age to age. Pretending to spread enlightenment, the philosophes had set out to extirpate these precious residua. … The result was that they had uprooted men from their culture at the very moment when they bragged of how they would cultivate them. … Convinced that they were emancipating souls, they succeeded only in deracinating them. These calumniators of the commonplace had not freed understanding from its chains, but cut it off from its sources. The individual who, thanks to them, must now cast off childish things, had really abandoned his own nature. … The promises of the cogito were illusory: free from prejudice, cut off from the influence of national idiom, the subject was not free but shrivelled and devitalised. … Everyday opinion should therefore be regarded as the soil where thought was nourished, its hearth and sanctuary, … and not, as the philosophes would have it, as some alien authority which overwhelmed and crushed it. … The cogito needed to be steeped in the profundities of the collective mind; the broken links with the past needed repairing; the quest for independence should yield to that for authenticity. Men should abandon their scepticism and give themselves over to the comforting warmth of majoritarian ideas, bowing down before their infallible authority.
    Alain Finkielkraut

Related words: shriveled, dried up, shrivel, shrunken, hollow, shrunk

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