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What is the adjective for shrivel?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb shrivel which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

shriveled
  1. Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
  2. Collapsed in size.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. lank, skinny, thin, scrawny, lean, bony, gaunt, emaciated, lanky, scraggy, angular, rangy, spare, spindly, gangling, skeletal, gangly, slender, slim, rawboned, starved, cadaverous, undernourished, attenuated, slight, pinched, wasted, haggard, beanpole, twiggy, underweight, beanstalk, meagre, meager, puny, reedy, gawky, weedy, wizened, fragile, stalky, delicate, stick, featherweight, twiglike, attenuate, fleshless, ethereal, lightweight, rarefied … more
shrivelled
  1. Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
  2. Collapsed in size.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. withered, wizened, wrinkled, dehydrated, desiccated, dry, scorched, parched, seared, sere, burned, burnt, exsiccated, puckered, dried up, wrinkly, creased, worn, crinkly, weather-beaten, leathery, wilted, gnarled, shriveled, weathered, dried out, sun-baked, shrivelled up, eroded, battered, arid, lined, craggy, windswept, waterless, baked, torrid, adust, crisp, brittle, dried, time-worn, crispy, bone dry, moistureless, crumbly, unjuicy, hardened, unmoistened, juiceless … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “He sees the crops withered through drought and devoured by pests on a shrivelled land struggling to escape the paralysis of famine.”
shrivelling
  1. (Britain, Canada) present participle of shrivel
  2. Synonyms:
      3. shrinking, contracting, shortening, telescoping, compressing, condensing, constricting, becoming smaller, getting smaller, growing smaller, squeezing, deflating, downsizing, withering, making smaller, reducing, narrowing, concentrating, slimming, curtailing, constringing, scrimping, paring down, slimming down, wasting away, truncating, disappearing, diminishing, decreasing, compacting, dwindling, collapsing, tightening, capsuling, capsulizing, narrowing down, shriveling, waning, shriveling up, pressing together, packing into, altering, gathering, taking in, drawing in, blighting, blasting, decaying … more
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