Shrivel

//ˈʃɹɪvəl//

Synonyms for "shrivel" (86 found)

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Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

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Synonyms

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derived

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manner of

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related to

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similar

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Translations

50 translations across 20 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • изсъхвам verb (collapse inward)
  • сбръчквам се verb (become wrinkled)

Catalan

4 entries
  • arrugar verb (draw into wrinkles)
  • arrugar-se verb (become wrinkled)
  • assecar-se verb (collapse inward)
  • marcir-se verb (collapse inward)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 向內捲曲 /向内卷曲 verb (collapse inward)
  • 弄皺 /弄皱 verb (draw into wrinkles)
  • 起皺 /起皱 verb (become wrinkled)

Czech

3 entries
  • scvrknout se verb (collapse inward)
  • svraštit se verb (become wrinkled)
  • zhroutit se verb (collapse inward)

Dutch

1 entries
  • verschrompelen verb (collapse inward)

Finnish

2 entries
  • kurtistua verb (become wrinkled)
  • romahtaa verb (collapse inward)

French

3 entries
  • rider verb (draw into wrinkles)
  • se flétrir verb (collapse inward)
  • se rider verb (become wrinkled)

Galician

3 entries
  • enrugar verb (become wrinkled)
  • enrugar verb (draw into wrinkles)
  • murchar verb (collapse inward)

German

2 entries
  • schrumpeln verb (become wrinkled)
  • verschrumpeln verb (become wrinkled)

Italian

4 entries
  • afflosciarsi verb (collapse inward)
  • avvizzire verb (collapse inward)
  • corrugarsi verb (become wrinkled)
  • raggrinzire verb (become wrinkled)

Latin

1 entries
  • marceō verb (collapse inward)

Māori

4 entries
  • memenge verb (collapse inward)
  • menge verb (collapse inward)
  • tingongo verb (collapse inward)
  • whakatārehe verb (become wrinkled)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • قورومق verb (collapse inward)

Persian

1 entries
  • ترنجیدن verb (become wrinkled)

Portuguese

3 entries
  • enrugar verb (become wrinkled)
  • enrugar verb (draw into wrinkles)
  • murchar verb (collapse inward)

Serbo-Croatian

3 entries
  • smežurati se verb (become wrinkled)
  • sparušiti se verb (become wrinkled)
  • zgrčiti se verb (collapse inward)

Spanish

4 entries
  • arrugar verb (draw into wrinkles)
  • arrugarse verb (collapse inward)
  • arrugarse verb (become wrinkled)
  • enrugar verb (draw into wrinkles)

Swedish

3 entries
  • krympa verb (collapse inward)
  • sjunka ihop verb (collapse inward)
  • skrumpna verb (become wrinkled)

Tocharian B

2 entries
  • klaiks verb (collapse inward)
  • stāl verb (collapse inward)

Uzbek

1 entries
  • quvramoq verb (collapse inward)

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Your vagina is not going to shrivel up like a prune.

Source: tatoeba (3899171)

I will make you a potion, and before sunrise you must swim ashore with it, seat yourself on the beach and drink it; then your tail will divide and shrivel up to what men call beautiful legs, but it hurts, it is as if a sharp sword were running through you.

Source: tatoeba (7741235)

The plant shrivelled from lack of water.

Source: wiktionary

His fingers were shriveled from being in the bath for too long.

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.