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" 同义词:shriveled, shrivelled,
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 withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair" 同义词:shriveled, shrivelled, withered, wizen, wizened,
例句与用法
1.
In eighteenth century the theory shrank . 在18世纪这种理论开始衰落。
2.
Washing wool in hot water will make it shrink ... 毛线用热水洗会抽缩。