shrivel

verb

1. （使）枯萎，干枯，皱缩
   to become or make sth dry and wrinkled as a result of heat, cold or being old
   1. 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。
   2. The hot weather had shrivelled the grapes in every vineyard.
      天气炎热，各家葡萄园的葡萄都蔫了。

in AM, use 美国英语用 shriveling, shriveled


1. 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.
   1. The plant shrivels and dies.
      植物干枯而死。
   2. ...dry weather that shrivelled this summer's crops.
      造成今夏作物枯萎的干旱天气
   3. Shrivel up means the same as shrivel .
      shrivel up 同 shrivel
   4. The leaves started to shrivel up.
      叶子开始枯萎。

1. The plant shrivels and dies.
   植物干枯而死。
2. For southeast Asia, the rising cost of money and the growing scarcity of foreign money in capital markets is coming at the same time as current accounts have deteriorated and local banks have seen deposit funding shrivel.
   在东南亚地区，与资金成本上涨和外国资金退出资本市场相伴随的是，经常账户恶化以及本土银行的存款资金萎缩。
3. Of course, managers have to be able to say yes too, otherwise their organisations would shrivel up and die.
   当然，经理也必须能说“是”，否则他们的组织将枯萎死亡。
4. Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
   你的财富、名望和短暂的权利将变得无足轻重。
5. Private colleges have seen their endowments and investment income shrivel because of the financial crisis, while public colleges have had funding cut by cash-strapped state governments.
   由于经济危机的缘故，私立大学的捐助资金和投资收入都减少了。
6. Leaves die, fall, and shrivel.
   叶子凋零、飘落枯萎了。
7. The seeds shrivel under their clods; The storehouses are desolate, The barns are torn down, For the grain is dried up.
   珥1：17谷种在土块下朽烂.仓也荒凉、廪也破坏.因为五谷枯乾了。
8. As you say, creditors are roosting in trees like vultures waiting to swoop down on anything valuable. In the absence of vultures, they have been reduced to rigging their towers with solar reflectors to shrivel the corpses.
   你晓得，那些债主象兀鹰一般歇在树枝上，伺机对任何有价值的东西飞扑下来。如果没有兀鹫的话，帕西人就不得不在高塔上装备太阳反射装置来把死尸照枯。
9. Soon it would shrivel away.
   可能一会儿就枯萎了。
10. You ought to pick those lettuces before they shrivel and die.
    你得在生菜枯萎死亡前收割它们。
11. Then their seed ripens, and soon they turn brown and shrivel up.
    随后，它们的种子熟了，不久就变枯萎。
12. Get the bulbs into the ground, or they will begin to shrivel.
    把鳞茎种到地里，否则会开始干枯的。
13. Why do you always seem to shrivel up when we meet new people at parties? You can't avoid them for ever.
    为什么你总是在联欢会时怕见生人呢？你不可能永远避开他们。
14. Were he now to back away from his UN bid, his clout among his own people would shrivel.
    如果他现在在联合国的入联申请中逐步后退，他在他自己人民当中的声望将会急剧下降。
15. If you stay in that bathtub any longer, you'll shrivel up into a prune.
    如果你再呆在水里，你要皱成一个干果了。
16. Provincial and municipal authorities, who rely on land sales for about a third of their revenue, have seen demand for land shrivel because of the slowdown in private real estate investment.
    大约三分之一财政收入依赖土地销售收入的省、市级地方政府，已经看到土地需求因房地产领域私人投资放缓而出现萎缩。
17. Why finial superior from political and business circle feel so shrivel in face of financial crisis?
    为什么政界和商界及金融界的顶尖高手面对金融危机却束手无策呢？！
18. Contacts between American and Chinese space scientists, broken off some years ago after accusations of Chinese spying and only recently tentatively resumed, are likely to shrivel once more.
    中美太空科学家之间的联系，数年前因指控中国间谍行为而终止。最近试探性的恢复，有可能再度受挫。
19. The east wind made it shrivel, it was stripped of its fruit; its strong branches withered and fire consumed them. dry hair with a hair dryer.
    东风吹干其上的果子，坚固的枝干折断枯干，被火烧毁了。用吹风机使头发变干。
20. Each day, with strength and shame, Mary trudged to the letterbox in hope, only to swivel, shrivel and slink back inside.
    每天，带着兴奋和惭愧，玛丽跋涉到满怀希望的邮箱前，只是为了打开，关上然后偷偷溜进屋子。
21. We should worry as much, or more, about the tendency of authorities to give a wink and a nod to anti-competitive practices during a downturn as about the survival of companies that are anyhow due to shrivel in a world of innovating entrepreneurs.
    我们既应担心那些本来就会在创新的企业家世界中枯萎的企业的生存，也应担心（甚至更加担心）政府倾向于在经济低迷时期默许甚至赞同反竞争行为。
22. In the deep winter, natural flowers tend to shrivel;
    隆冬时节，自然界之花通常会凋谢飘零；
23. Dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture.
    由于完全失去了水分而干瘪皱缩。
24. End up a cup of worth waiting for milk tea, the tongue, foot is worth around the read, like to follow the piano in long holiday tunes, elegant and moving, the soul of idyllic with music shrivel.
    端起一杯值得等待的奶茶，唇齿缠绕的清甜，是值得念想的追随，就像在悠长假期中的钢琴曲调，优雅动人，清澄的灵魂随乐谱飘零。
25. The axon degenerated, shrivel and vanished;
    轴索变性、萎缩和脱失。
26. Shrinkage contributed to an increase in the concentration of basic grape ingredients such as sugar and acid. An appropriate degree of shrinkage was apparently helpful in improving the phenolic content and increasing the antioxidant activity, but the berries that continued to shrivel showed a low antioxidant activity.
    研究结果显示：皱缩会导致果实基本成分诸如糖、酸浓度的增加；适度皱缩有益于葡萄中酚类物质浓度及抗氧化活性的提高，但是深度皱缩会使抗氧化能力显著降低。
27. The specific root length ( SRL) of shrivel brown was the highest among the pigmentation roots in first-order, the second was brown roots, white and yellow roots was smaller.
    在1级根中，褐色皱缩细根比根长最高，褐色根次之，白色和黄色根比根长较低。
28. In a variety of contemporary culture, folk art as the most national characteristics and local spirit of creation, it not only failed to shrivel, but more snowy fragrant, showing its mystery and meaning.
    在当代各种文化的冲击下，民俗艺术作为最具民族特色和本土精神的创造，它不但没有凋谢飘零，反而更加艳丽芬芳，显现着它的奥秘和真谛。
29. In the foreign trade sector, export received some recovery after experienced large-scale shrivel.
    对外贸易部门中，出口经历了大规模的萎缩之后有了一定的回升。

verb

1. decrease in size, range, or extent
   1. His earnings shrank
   2. My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me

   Synonym:    shrink

2. wither, as with a loss of moisture
   1. The fruit dried and shriveled

   Synonym:    shrivel upshrinkwither