SHRIVEL


Meaning of SHRIVEL in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

up

She shrivelled up , fell forwards, like a paper doll.

Otherwise they shrivel up and die almost instantly.

The poor things shrivel up in protest.

But eventually, even red dwarfs will shrivel up and die.

The whole house smelled of it, of lost youth shrivelled up into a kind of dust.

When the third woman enters the scene, she almost shrivels up .

The few unpicked apples that bobbed and swayed on the bare top branches were all shrivelled up .

Probably shrivel up like a cactus in a microwave.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Profits have shriveled since the start of the economic crisis.

Why do Kate's onions grow so well, while mine shrivel and rot in the ground?

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But eventually, even red dwarfs will shrivel up and die.

How it had shrivelled her to the point of annihilation.

In a rough economy, they said, budgets shrivel and advertisers get stern and cautious.

The ghost of Ken Noakes shrivelled and vanished from her subconscious.

The poor things shrivel up in protest.

The steel companies seem to want to shrivel , to disappear.

These microscopic biting flies would dry and shrivel in minutes out in the sun.

Yet if they wait while a complex corporate empire is unwound, the value of their loans can shrivel almost to nothing.

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