shriveled

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I don't like the burn-victim look of chicken inasal -- shriveled, dried, overly singed in parts (blame it on the calamansi juice and brown sugar in the marinade) -- but it's actually a mix of juicy and tough consistency.

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  1. reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity
  2. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
  3. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture

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  • As his penis shriveled, at a rate only slightly less than it had grown (what a marvel, thought Grace, and what a pity to say good-bye), she sat up. —  FSF,July2008
  • Their tender lips were shriveled, their skulls cracked and pierced; their feet were slashed and fingers sliced away and scattered; their ribs staved in and smashed. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • He dealt with the used condom by dropping it to the stained concrete floor between the cot and the wall Amy wondered how many other used condoms lay under the cot, shriveled, their guilty contents petrified by time, a forlorn reminder of other girls who had lain on that scratchy wool blanket with their skirts hiked up and panties discarded She felt horribly exposed for the first time—and he wasn't even looking at her. —  Kay Hooper - Out Of The Shadows
  • The figure of the shriveled, ancient Jarl was outlined by a torch. —  040 - Haunted Ocean
  • The plant's corns became so hot that the tassles browned and shriveled, and the leaves around its ears split apart. —  Golem in the Gears
 

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