shriveled definition

1. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; ; ; ; -W.F.Starkie
• examples: the old woman's shriveled skin
• examples: he looked shriveled and ill
• examples: a shrunken old man
• examples: a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws
• examples: he did well despite his withered arm
• examples: a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair
2. reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity
• examples: our shriveled receipts during the storm
• examples: as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled
• examples: the dollar's shrunken buying power