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shrivel

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I shrivel up in the face of your freethinking ways.

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Quick take

wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"

Meaning at a glance

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verb

wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"

verb

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shrivel.

verb

wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"

See also: shrink, wither

verb

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

See also: shrink

Example sentences

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I shrivel up in the face of your freethinking ways.

2

If resale was allowed, do we believe network hardware companies would just shrivel up?

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In men they make the testes shrivel, they make you develop "bitch tits", they alter your mood and make you more aggressive.

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Certain "journalists" are seriously jumping the gun if they assume GCC is just going to shrivel up and die.

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> Certain "journalists" are seriously jumping the gun if they assume GCC is just going to shrivel up and die.

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Quoth you:> But I also think we shouldn't be so thin-skinned that we shrivel up and quit the first time a trite, cliched joke is thrown our way

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Would javasript shrivel and die if all the browsers released Python support tomorrow?

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So this technique ends up making a lot of companies short term wealthy until they shrivel up and die. Then they go away and it is hard to get investment to build another one.

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The fact that one is so helpless against the hivemind and unable to defend oneself against such mob-driven attacks makes me shrivel

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The contrary position is that if a company stays in its rundown office space, it will stagnate, morale will suffer, people will leave and the rest of the operation will shrivel up and die. New space is a reward for ambition, and one of many steps to becoming bigger and better operation.

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Etc, haven't lead to mass systemic unemployment, but future technologies will?The reason technology doesn't create systemic unemployment is that people don't just shrivel up and die when they lose their job.

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Most of the data is locked up in silos lacking any sort of API, but sporting a user interface that compels a little piece of my soul to shrivel up every time I have to log in and download the CSVs.

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You are severely underestimating the value of not having to watch people you care about shrivel up before your eyes and be irrevocably destroyed, knowing that there is nothing you can do to stop it.

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A quote from the linked article: "My siblings and I grew up thinking that French toast grew hair on your chest, that acne resulted from negative thoughts, that watching a bag of popcorn inflate in the microwave could shrivel gonads and cripple sperm.

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If it's necessary to dilute articles about intellectually worthwhile subjects in order to have them here at all, then this community should shrivel and die and let another better-designed, better-focused or better-populated one take its place.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use shrivel in a sentence?

I shrivel up in the face of your freethinking ways.

What does shrivel mean?

wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"

What part of speech is shrivel?

shrivel is commonly used as verb.