Qué (quién) es Shrivel - definición

WRINKLING AND CONTRACTING

Shrivel; Shriveling

Shrivel

·vt To cause to shrivel or contract; to cause to shrink onto corruptions.

II. Shrivel ·vi To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age;

- often with up.

shrivel

¦ verb (shrivels, shrivelling, shrivelled; US shrivels, shriveling, shriveled) wrinkle and contract, or cause to wrinkle and contract, through loss of moisture.

Origin

C16: perh. of Scand. origin.

shrivel

I. v. a.

Parch, dry, dry up.

II. v. n.

Shrink, contract, dwindle, wither, decrease, wrinkle.

Wikipedia

Shrivelling

Shrivelling is a natural phenomenon where an object, with an attached sub-elastic covering, has its interior volume reduced in some way. The covering, which cannot contract any further, is then obliged to wrinkle and buckle, in order to preserve surface area while containing the lesser volume.

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Ejemplos de pronunciación para Shrivel

1. They just start to shrivel, but not

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2. You sort of shrivel up your nose.

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3. they just shrivel up and die for a while

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4. The executive centers of our brain shrivel under stress.

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5. Watch me shrivel up like a slug I

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Ejemplos de uso de Shrivel

1. The government‘s difficulties about ID cards will shrivel.

2. It said that since the population was certain to shrivel, so should the city‘s footprint.

3. Only dense and relatively low–moisture vegetables roast well – others tend to shrivel and become leathery.

4. "The most distressing effect of radiotherapy is that the blood vessels shrivel up," she said.

5. But they had also forecast that nearly all other sections of the economy would shrivel.