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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
shrivelled is an adjective meaning "(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture". It carries 3 recorded senses.
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”
“he did well despite his withered arm”
“a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shrivelled come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.