Shrivel

Definition: Shrivel

Shrivel

Verb

1. Wither, esp. with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled".

2. Decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shrivel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Synonyms: Shrivel

Contraction

Verb: become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay; (deteriorate).

Deterioration

Run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale, sweal; lapse, be the worse for; sphacelate: break, break down; spring a leak, crack, start; shrivel; (contract); fade, go off, wither, molder, rot, rankle, decay, go bad; go to decay, fall into decay; " fall into the sear and yellow leaf", rust, crumble, shake; totter, totter to its fall; perish; die.

Crosswords: Shrivel

Your balls shrivel to the size of chick-peas (Kiss of Death; writing credit: Eleazar Lipsky; Ben Hecht)

God, does it always shrivel up like that when you shower (Neighbors; writing credit: Thomas Berger; Larry Gelbart)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Hour by hour the cotton plants seemed to blacken and shrivel.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "shrivel": shrivel away ♦ shrivel up. Additional references.

Albanian

rrudhem (cockle), rrëgjohem, kruspullohem (crouch, huddle), fishkem (fade, languish, wilt, wither). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وهن (asthenia, attenuate, attenuation, damp, dampen, debilitate, debility, decay, discouragement, distemper, droop, enervate, enfeeble, extenuate, feebleness, imitators, infirmity, invalidate, languish, languishment, languor, pall, relax, sap, sickliness, thin, weak spot, weaken, weaklings), ‏تقلص (contract, cringe, dwindle, retract, retraction, shrink, shrinkage), ‏تغضن (cockle, corrugate, crinkle, crumple, furrow, pucker, ruffle, wrinkle), ‏تصلب (indurate, intransigence, obstinacy, ossify, perseverance, persistence, solidify, stiffen, stubbornness), ‏تجعد (corrugate, crease, crinkle, crispiness, crumple, curl, frizz, furrow, pucker, ruckle, seize, wrinkle), ‏ذبل (consume, etiolate, fade, flag, languish, quail, sear, shell, wilt, wither, wizen), ‏إخشوشن (harden, rough). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съсухрям се, сбръчквам (curl, wrinkle). (various references)

Chinese 

起皺紋 , 枯萎 (Blighted, Blighting, seared, Searing, Sears, Shrivelling, Wilt, wilted, Wilting, Withers). (various references)

Czech

svraštit (corrugate, pucker, ridgy, rumple, wrinkle), sušit se (becoming dry, parch), scvrkat se. (various references)

Dutch

slinken (abate, decrease, diminish, drop, fall, shrink, shrivel up), verschrompelen (shrink, shrivel up), ineenschrompelen (shrink, shrivel up). (various references)

Esperanto

ŝrumpi (shrink, shrivel up). (various references)

Faeroese

tódna (shrink, shrivel up), krympast saman (shrink, shrivel up). (various references)

Farsi 

چین خوردن , چروک شدن (Constringe, Puchery, Shrink), خشک شدن (Atrophy). (various references)

Finnish

käpertyä (be wrapped up in oneself, curl up, draw up, roll up). (various references)

French

se rider, se ratatiner (shrink, shrivel up), se racornir (shrink, shrivel up), se flétrir, se dessécher, rabougrir. (various references)

German

schrumpfen (atrophy, decline, depreciate, dwindle, get wrinkled, shrank, shrink, shrunken, slim, to shrink, waste). (various references)

Greek 

συστέλλω (contract, furl, shrink), συστέλλομαι (contract, shrink), ζαρώνω (cockle, contract, cower, crimple, cringe, crouch, crumple, knit, pucker, ruck, rumple, shrink, wimple, wrinkle). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקמוט (crush, wrinkle), ל�"תיבש (drain, dry, dry up), ל�"צטמק (shrink), לצמק (shrink). (various references)

Hungarian

kiszorít (supersede, to cut out, to displace, to expel, to extrude, to supersede, to supplant), összeaszalódik. (various references)

Indonesian

mengerut (contract, crease, shrink, wrinkle), melayukan. (various references)

Italian

rinsecchire, raggrinzirsi (crumple, pucker), avvizzirsi, avvizzire (fade, wither). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

萎む (to fade, to shrivel, to wilt, to wither), 乾びる (to dry up, to shrivel), 凋む (to fade, to shrivel, to wilt, to wither). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しぼむ (to fade, to shrivel, to wilt, to wither), からびる (to dry up, to shrivel). (various references)

Korean 

주름지십시�". (various references)

Manx

spongey (aridity, burn up, cinder, dry up, roast, spunk), shirgaghey (atrophy, contract, dry up, languish, mummify, perish, sear, wilt, wither, withering), cungaghey (squeeze, wrinkle). (various references)

Pig Latin

ivelshray.(various references)

Portuguese

secar (blast, blight, desiccate, drain, dry, exsiccate, fork, kipper, peter out, rub down, scorch, sear, ted, wipe, wither), paralisar (benumb, block, choke, immobilize, palsy, paralyse, paralyze, petrify), murchar (blast, fade, flag, wilt, wither), enrugar (cockle, corrugate, crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, crush, fret, furrow, pucker, ripple, ruffle, rumple, wrinkle). (various references)

Romanian

stafidi, smochini, se contracta (contract, shrink), scoroji (cast, shrink, warp), zgribuli, zgârci (clench, contract, gristle, shrink, strain, writhe), cocoloşi (ball, crumple, cuddle, hush up, shrink), arde (bake, be on fire, bite, blister, burn, burn away, burn out, burn up, calcine, cauterize, consume, cook, cremate, diddle, glare, glow, grill, heat, ignite, inflame, overdo, parch, roast, scald, scorch, sear, smart, smoke, strike, tan, you are getting hot), încreţi (corrugate, crisp, curl, dimple, fold, frizz, frizzle, knit, pleat, purse, ridge, ripple, ruffle, wave, wrinkle). (various references)

Russian 

скрючиваться (crook), сморщиваться (corrugate, shriveling, shrivelled, shrivelling, shrivels), сжиматься (contract, shrink, tighten). (various references)

Scottish

gais (a torrent, shrivel up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smežurati (wizen, wrinkle), zgrčiti se (double up), zgrčiti (contract, convulse), osušiti (desiccate, dry, dry off). (various references)

Spanish

secar (bake, blot, dry, mop up, parch, press, pump dry, season, wipe, wipe at), quemar (be burnt down, bite, burn, burn down, burn into, burn off, frost, incinerate, scorch, shoot away, swinge), encoger (constrict, contract, intimidate, shorten, shrink, withdraw), consumir (consume, dig into, drain, eat, expend, get through, live off, live on, use up, waste, wear away), arrugar (crease, furrow, line, pucker, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, screw up, seam, wrinkle, wrinkles). (various references)

Swedish

skrumpna (shrink). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้ย่น (ruffle), ทำให้หม�"ประโยชน์, ย่น (ruck/ruckle up, ruffle, rugose, rugous), หม�"ประโยชน์. (various references)

Turkish

kurutmak (air, bake, corn, cure, dehydrate, deplete, desiccate, drain, dry, dry up, exhaust, parch, scorch, sear, season, torrefy, weather, wither), kırıştırmak (cockle, corrugate, Crinkle, crumple up, flirt with, frill, furrow, line, pucker, pucker up, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, rumple, shrivel up, wrinkle, wrinkle up), kırışmak (become wrinkled, bunch, cockle, corrugate, crease, Crinkle, crumple, frill, pucker, ripple, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, shrivel up, wrinkle), kırış kırış yapmak (shrivel up), içi geçmek (doze off, nap), buruşturmak (cockle, corrugate, crease, Crinkle, crumple, crumple up, muss, pucker, pucker up, ruck, ruck up, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, shrivel up, wrinkle, wrinkle up), buruşmak (cockle, corrugate, crease, Crinkle, crumple, crush, pucker, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, shrivel up, wrinkle), büzmek (astringe, constrict, gather, pucker, purse up, shir, shirr, shrink), aciz duruma düşmek. (various references)

Turkmen 

зьrьюmek (shrink, wither). (various references)

Ukrainian

висушувати (desiccate, exsiccate, parch, wither), висихати (desiccate, exsiccate, wizen), зіщулюватися. (various references)

Welsh

crebachu (pucker, shrink, wrinkle). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "shrivel": shriveled, shriveling, shrivelled, shrivelling, shrivels. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Shrivel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dhrivel, schrivel, Schryver, scriverle, sheitel, sheivel, Shirville, shivel, shivell, shrave, shreivel, shrif, shrivell, shriwel, survel. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: elvish, ervils, hirsel, hirsle, livers, livres, relish, shiver, shrive, silver, sliver.

-2 letters: ervil, evils, heils, heirs, herls, hires, hives, lehrs, liers, liver, lives, livre, riels, riles, rives, shiel, shier, shire, shive, siver, slier, veils, viers, viler, vires, virls.

-3 letters: elhi, evil, heil, heir, herl, hers, hies, hire, hive, ires, isle, lehr, leis, lier.

+1 letter: chervils, lavisher, liverish, shelvier, shrieval, shrivels.

+2 letters: cleverish, lavishers, shriveled.

+3 letters: chevaliers, chivalries, feverishly, overchills, overlavish, overlights, shrievalty, shriveling, shrivelled, silverfish.

+4 letters: overflights, shirtsleeve, shrivelling, silversmith, theirselves.

+5 letters: dichlorvoses, liverishness, overlordship, shirtsleeved, shirtsleeves, shrievalties, silverfishes, silversmiths.