Usually means: Drying up and becoming wrinkled.
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  1. shrivelling: Merriam-Webster
  2. shrivelling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shrivelling: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shrivelling: Vocabulary.com
  5. shrivelling: Wordnik
  6. shrivelling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. shrivelling: Wiktionary
  8. shrivelling: Dictionary.com
  9. shrivelling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Shrivelling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Shrivelling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Shrivelling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. shrivelling: FreeDictionary.org
  14. shrivelling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The act or process by which something shrivels.

Similar:
sear, withered, dry, wizen, lean, sere, thin, shrunken, reduced, decreased, more...

Opposite:
expanding, swelling, blooming, flourishing, thriving

Types:
withering, drying, fading, decaying, parching, dessication, more...



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Similar:
sear, withered, dry, wizen, lean, sere, thin, shrunken, reduced, decreased, more...

Opposite:
expanding, swelling, blooming, flourishing, thriving

Types:
withering, drying, fading, decaying, parching, dessication, more...



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