lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness;
"the old woman's shriveled skin"
"he looked shriveled and ill"
"a shrunken old man"
"a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"
"he did well despite his withered arm"
"a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair"
reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity;
"our shriveled receipts during the storm"
"as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"
"the dollar's shrunken buying power"
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用作形容词 (adj.)
The shrunken dress was entirely too tight to wear. 缩了水的裙子整个的紧了,穿不上。
The doctor is examining the shrunken body of a starving child. 医生正检查小孩饿瘦了的身躯。
I glanced at the juice hold in her shrunken hand. 余望了望举行的果汁在她萎缩的手。
The moonlight made deep black shadows in the shrunken cheeks. 月光照在凹下去的脸颊上,形成深深的黑影。