intransitive & transitive verb. To become or make shrunken and wrinkled, often by drying.

intransitive & transitive verb. To lose or cause to lose vitality or intensity.

intransitive & transitive verb. To become or make much less or smaller; dwindle.

To contract; draw or be drawn into wrinkles; shrink and form corrugations, as a leaf in the hot sun, or the skin with age.

Synonyms To shrivel is to become wrinkled or corrugated by contraction; to shrink is, as a rule, to contract while preserving the same general form.

To contract into wrinkles; cause to shrink into corrugations.

To make narrow; limit in scope.

To wither; blight; render impotent.

intransitive verb. To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; ; -- often with up.

transitive verb. To cause to shrivel or contract; to cause to shrink onto corruptions.

verb. To collapse inward; to crumble.

verb. To become wrinkled.

verb. wither, as with a loss of moisture

verb. decrease in size, range, or extent

"Okay, why did my brain shrivel to the size and consistency of a pea after two kids and you just had a baby and show no signs of “baby brain” at all."

shriveled  shriveling  shrivelled  shrivelling  

decrease  diminish  fall  lessen  

civil  drivel  swivel  uncivil  

Sanforize  absolve  age  air-dry  anhydrate  

shrivelled  shrivelling  

shrivelled  shrivelling  shrivels