shrivelled lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• 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"
• 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" -W.F.Starkie "he did well despite his withe..."
• (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture "dried-up grass" "the desert was edged with sere vegetation" "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings" "withered vines"
• decrease in size, range, or extent "His earnings shrank" "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
• wither, as with a loss of moisture "The fruit dried and shriveled"