The meaning of SHRIVEL is to draw into wrinkles especially with a loss of moisture. How to use shrivel in a sentence.

Something that's shriveled is wrinkled, withered, and dried out. If you forget to water your plants, they will become shriveled.

To become or make shrunken and wrinkled, often by drying: Leaves die,...

SHRIVELED definition: 1. dry, smaller than normal, and covered with lines as if by crushing or folding: 2. much smaller…. Learn more.

to become or make something dry and wrinkled as a result of heat, cold or being old. shrivel (up) The leaves on the plant had shrivelled up from lack of water. shrivel something (up) The hot weather had …

When something shrivels or when something shrivels it, it becomes dryer and smaller, often with lines in its surface, as a result of losing the water it contains. The plant shrivels and dies. [VERB] ...dry …

SHRIVEL definition: to contract and wrinkle, as from great heat, cold, or dryness. See examples of shrivel used in a sentence.