shriveling
Drying up gradually
Shriveling is the process of becoming wrinkled and contracted, typically from loss of moisture or vitality.
Fruit shrivels as it dries; skin shrivels with age or dehydration.
The word extends to anything that diminishes or withers: Her confidence was shriveling under his criticism.
Also spelled shrivelling in British English.
Losing turgor and drooping
- witheringDrying and declining
- decayingUndergoing organic breakdown
- wastingUsing poorly, inefficiently
- atrophyingWeakening through disuse
dying · fading · deteriorating · blighting · rotting · necrosis · decomposing · perishing
wilting
Losing turgor and drooping
atrophying · dying · fading · deteriorating · blighting · rotting · necrosis · decomposing · perishing · senescence
desiccation
Complete removal of moisture
- parchedExtremely dry or thirsty
- dehydratedSeverely lacking moisture
- witheredDried and shrunken
wizened · dried · arid · dryness · evaporation · sunbaked · scorched · crisped · wrinkled · leathery
- plant damagewilt, chlorosis, necrosis, rot, scorch
- decliningdeclining, waning, fading, diminishing, decreasing
- deformingbending, twisting, warping, curving, folding
- grain qualityprotein content, moisture content, gluten content, hardness, dockage
- plant stressheat stress, wilting, leaf scorch, chlorosis, leaf burn
- decreasesreduction, decline, drop, fall, decrease
shrivelingexpanding
Growing in scope
swelling · inflating · growing · enlarging · distending
shrivelinghydrating
Supplying with fluid
plumping · rehydrating · moistening · saturating · soaking
shrivelingblooming
Producing flowers now
flourishing · thriving · blossoming · developing · ripening
shrivel, shriveled, shrivels, shrivelled, shrivelling, shrivel up