Usually means: Drying up, becoming wrinkled, contracted.
Definitions Related words Mentions History
We found 15 dictionaries that define the word shriveling:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. shriveling: Merriam-Webster
  2. shriveling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shriveling: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shriveling: Vocabulary.com
  5. shriveling: Wordnik
  6. shriveling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. shriveling: Wiktionary
  8. shriveling: Dictionary.com
  9. shriveling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Shriveling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Shriveling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. shriveling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. shriveling: FreeDictionary.org
  14. shriveling: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See shrivel as well.)

Google, News, Images, Wikipedia, Reddit, BlueSky
Definitions from Wiktionary (
)
American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  The act or process by which something shrivels.

Similar:
wither, shrivel up, shrink, shriveler, extenuation, shredding, dwindlement, narrowing, shuttering, decaying, more...

Opposite:
expanding, swelling, blooming, flourishing, thriving

Types:
withering, drying, fading, decaying, rotting, more...

▸ Words similar to shriveling

▸ Usage examples for shriveling

▸ Idioms related to shriveling

▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)

▸ Popular adjectives describing shriveling

▸ Words that often appear near shriveling

▸ Rhymes of shriveling

▸ Invented words related to shriveling

Similar:
wither, shrivel up, shrink, shriveler, extenuation, shredding, dwindlement, narrowing, shuttering, decaying, more...

Opposite:
expanding, swelling, blooming, flourishing, thriving

Types:
withering, drying, fading, decaying, rotting, more...



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.


(Click a button above to see words related to "shriveling" that fit the given meter.)



Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux