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# shrivelled

«shrivelled» in Mova's school 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/school/S/shrivelled/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales a shrivelled thing or person is old, dry, or withered, often a sign of age, hunger, or spite.

### examples

- The shrivelled frog sat alone in the corner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrivelled/#x1)
- He sold a sack of shrivelled apples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrivelled/#x2)
- The old dwarf had a shrivelled face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrivelled/#x3)

### 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/school/S/shrivelled/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.