Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cause to shrink or shrivel, as with cold; benumb.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb Prov. Eng. To cause to shrink or shrivel with cold; to benumb.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb UK, dialect, dated To cause to shrink or shrivel with cold; to benumb.

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Compare shrink.

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