Main entry: withered, wizen, wizened, shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken
Definition: lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
Usage: 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-W.F.Starkie; he did well despite his withered arm; a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair
Main entry: dried-up, sear, sere, shriveled, shrivelled, withered
Definition: (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
Usage: dried-up grass; the desert was edged with sere vegetation; shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings; withered vines