Shriveled vs. Shrivelled

Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.

Example: ‘A prune is a shriveled plum.’;

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(American spelling) shrivel

(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture;

Example: ‘dried-up grass’; ‘the desert was edged with sere vegetation’; ‘shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings’; ‘withered vines’;

lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness;

Example: ‘the old woman's shriveled skin’; ‘he looked shriveled and ill’; ‘a shrunken old man’; ‘a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws’; ‘he did well despite his withered arm’; ‘a wizened little man with frizzy gray hair’;

reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity;

Example: ‘our shriveled receipts during the storm’; ‘as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled’; ‘the dollar's shrunken buying power’;

Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.

Example: ‘A prune is a shrivelled plum.’;

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(British spelling) shrivel

(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture;

Example: ‘dried-up grass’; ‘the desert was edged with sere vegetation’; ‘shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings’; ‘withered vines’;

lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness;

Example: ‘the old woman's shriveled skin’; ‘he looked shriveled and ill’; ‘a shrunken old man’; ‘a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws’; ‘he did well despite his withered arm’; ‘a wizened little man with frizzy gray hair’;

reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity;

Example: ‘our shriveled receipts during the storm’; ‘as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled’; ‘the dollar's shrunken buying power’;