| verb | wither, as with a loss of moisture “The fruit dried and shriveled” |
| verb | decrease in size, range, or extent “His earnings shrank” |
| adjective | (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture “dried-up grass” |
| adjective | lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; ; ; ; -W.F.Starkie “the old woman's shriveled skin” |
| adjective | reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity “our shriveled receipts during the storm” |
| shrinking | noun | the act of becoming less |
| sereness | noun | a withered dryness |