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Shrivelled meaning
Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant. | Collapsed in size.
Example sentences (9)
While there would not be any value cut on wheat having shrivelled and broken grains up to 6 per cent, the farmers will lose Rs 5.31 per quintal if such grains are in the range of 6 to 8 per cent.
In the majority of cases, the victims looked as though they'd died peacefully through lack of oxygen, but the ferocious heat had shrivelled their bodies.
Allen and Duncan Smith's report opened with an illustration of the "normal child's" large brain and the shrivelled, walnut brain of the neglected child.
Labour’s position has shrivelled into semantic haggling over a second referendum.
True, his “face” is made of wax, his “hair” is a wig and the body inside the fancy uniform is as shrivelled as a scrotum.
Fall from Olympus In one branch of Greek mythology, Hera ejected Hephaestus from the heavens because he was "shrivelled of foot".
Harry notices that Dumbledore's right hand is shrivelled and black.
It is also widely believed that after his death, Eurystheus's head shrivelled to resemble that of a duckling.
The parchment was somewhat shrivelled but otherwise relatively unscathed, and an engraved facsimile of the charter was made by John Pine in 1733.