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基本释义
  • a. 干枯的;皱缩的
    同义参见:
    contracted
英英解释

  • 　3个形容词解释

    1. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
      [同] dried-up, sear, sere, shriveled, shrivelled, withered
      [例]
      • dried-up grass
      • the desert was edged with sere vegetation
      • shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings
      • withered vines
    2. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
      [同] shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened
      [例]
      • 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
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