shrivelled是什么意思？

shrivelled

• v. （因热力，严寒、干燥、年老等而）枯萎，皱缩( shrivel的过去式和过去分词 )，瘪，干巴，干瘪；

动词：shrivel;

例句

• The leaves on the plant had shrivelled up from lack of water. 因为缺水，植物的叶子已经枯萎了。
• It looked old and shrivelled. 它看上去苍老而干枯。
• The spinach is shrivelled up. 菠菜蔫了.
• After a week, original and hale strong lamina gradually atrophic and shrivelled. 一星期后, 本来健壮有力的叶片逐渐萎缩干瘪.
• Some of them carried pikes with shrivelled heads on top. 他们中一些人手持枪尖上挂着皱缩人头的长矛。
• ...dry weather that shrivelled this summer's crops. 造成今夏作物枯萎的干旱天气

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• V-ERG
  (使)枯萎;(使)干枯;(使)皱缩
  When something shrivels or when something shrivels it, it becomes dryer and smaller, often with lines in its surface, as a result of losing the water it contains.
  例句
  The plant shrivels and dies. 植物干枯而死。 ...dry weather that shrivelled this summer's crops. 造成今夏作物枯萎的干旱天气

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture;
  "dried-up grass""the desert was edged with sere vegetation""shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings""withered vines"
  2. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness;
  "the old woman's shriveled skin""he looked shriveled and ill""a shrunken old man""a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie"he did well despite his withered arm""a wizened little man with frizzy gray hair"
  3. reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity;
  "our shriveled receipts during the storm""as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled""the dollar's shrunken buying power"