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# shrivelled

adjective; past form of verb shrivel (shrivel, shrivels, shrivelled, shrivelling; American spelling shriveled)

«shrivelled» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Shrivelled means dried up and wrinkled, shrunk small and tight, like an old apple or a dead leaf. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrivelled/#m1)

### In the lessons

in the tales a shrivelled thing or person is old, dry, or withered, often a sign of age, hunger, or spite.

### Examples

- The shrivelled frog sat alone in the corner. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrivelled/#x1)
- He sold a sack of shrivelled apples. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrivelled/#x2)
- The old dwarf had a shrivelled face. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrivelled/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

Job and Lamentations use it for a body wasted by suffering or hunger, with skin drawn tight on the bones.

**Interpretation.** Job reads it as his suffering becoming a "witness" against him, which his friends took as proof of guilt. Lamentations shows the starving people of Jerusalem after the city fell.

### Examples

- And Thou hast shrivelled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness riseth up against me, it testifieth to my face. (Writings JOB.16.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shrivelled/#x1)
- Their visage is blacker than coal; they are not known in the streets; their skin is shrivelled upon their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. (Writings LAM.4.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shrivelled/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «shrivelled» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrivelled/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«shrivelled» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/shrivelled.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «shrivelled» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/shrivelled/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«shrivelled» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/shrivelled.html) on Mova free.