shrivelled

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You've shrivelled, shrivelled, all to nothing, poor dear, now I come to look at you.

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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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  • Mrs. Bradley was dry without being shrivelled, and birdlike without being pretty. —  Speedy Death - Gladys Mitchell - Mrs Bradley 01 - 1929
  • About them the turf was burned to the roots and all within the ring the grass was scorched and shrivelled, as if flames had swept the hill-top; but there was no sign of any living thing. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • His imagination shrivelled, and he was just an embittered man in a dirty cellar looking at a pile of old clothes. —  A Demon In My View
  • My brain had shrivelled, my appetite for rubbish had swollen. —  Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • His limbs grew shrivelled, his hair white, his eyes so shrunken that they seemed hardly more than points; but when the queen turned with horror to ask her lady what it meant, the change in her was hardly less wondrous, for, though the old countess was ignorant of it, fifty years had been swept from her, and she was straight and winsome as of yore They were still standing, dumb with surprise, when Ogier awoke and glanced about him with feeble, uncertain gaze. —  The Red Romance Book
 

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