lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; the old womans shriveled skin; he looked shriveled and ill; a shrunken old man; a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws-W.F.Starkie; he did well despite his withered arm; a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair

[ Syn: shriveled , shrivelled , shrunken , wizen , wizened ]

(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; dried-up grass; the desert was edged with sere vegetation; shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings; withered vines

[ Syn: dried-up , sere , sear , shriveled , shrivelled ]