What is another word for shrivels?

Pronunciation: [ʃɹˈɪvə͡lz] (IPA)

Shrivels is a verb that means to shrink, wither, or contract. It is often used to describe the drying out of something like a fruit or a plant. There are many synonyms for shrivels, including wilt, droop, fade, dry up, shrink, and contract. These words can be used interchangeably depending on the context in which they are being used. For example, wilt is often used to describe plants that are losing their vitality, while dry up is used to describe something that is losing its moisture content. Whatever word is used to describe shrivels, it is clear that it denotes the loss of moisture or vitality in something.

What are the hypernyms for Shrivels?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Shrivels

  • When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.
    Sun Bear
  • Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.
    Seneca
  • We all bear traces of the starvation struggle which for so long made up the life of the race. Our very organism holds memories and glimpses of that long life of our ancestors which still goes on among so many of our contemporaries. Nothing so deadens the sympathies and shrivels the power of enjoyment as the persistent keeping away from the great opportunities for helpfulness and a continual ignoring of the starvation struggle which makes up the life of at least half the race. To shut one’s self away from that half of the race life is to shut one’s self away from the most vital part of it; it is to live out but half the humanity to which we have been born heir.
    Jane Addams
  • I come to understand what purity is: it means to feel something so wholeheartedly that it shrivels up all doubts, all cowardice and all considerations within one. (p. 199)
    Stig Dagerman

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