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# shrivelled

«shrivelled» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **dried up and wrinkled, shrunk small and tight, like an…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective; past form of verb shrivel (shrivel, shrivels, shrivelled, shrivelling; American spelling shriveled)

### meaning for a pupil

Shrivelled means dried up and wrinkled, shrunk small and tight, like an old apple or a dead leaf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shrivelled/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Job and Lamentations use it for a body wasted by suffering or hunger, with skin drawn tight on the bones. Interpretation: Job reads it as his suffering becoming a "witness" against him, which his friends took as proof of guilt. Lamentations shows the starving people of Jerusalem after the city fell. In the primary lessons: in the tales a shrivelled thing or person is old, dry, or withered, often a sign of age, hunger, or spite.

### examples

- And Thou hast shrivelled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness riseth up against me, it testifieth to my face. (Writings JOB.16.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shrivelled/#x1)
- Their visage is blacker than coal; they are not known in the streets; their skin is shrivelled upon their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. (Writings LAM.4.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shrivelled/#x2)
- The shrivelled frog sat alone in the corner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shrivelled/#x3)
- He sold a sack of shrivelled apples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shrivelled/#x4)
- The old dwarf had a shrivelled face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shrivelled/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shrivelled» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shrivelled/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.