shrivelled
Adjective

shrivelled

  1. Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer#Noun|layer has remained constant.
    A prune is a shrivelled plum.
    • 1847 December, Acton Bell [pseudonym; Anne Brontë], “The Parsonage”, in Agnes Grey. A Novel, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher, […], OCLC 156123328 ↗, page 1 ↗:
      All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.
  2. collapsed#Adjective|Collapsed in size#Noun|size.
Verb
  1. Simple past tense and past participle of shrivel
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