Read full poem →Awns the last gleaner overstept,
Or shrivelled flax, whose flower is blue
A single season, never two;
Dictionary Entry
To collapse inward; to crumble.
In a Sentence
“The plant shrivelled from lack of water.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. shrivelledold shrivelledskin shrivelledhand shrivelled
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Poetry examples for “shrivelled”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And shut it in a match-box.
My shrivelled wings were beaten,
Shed their colours in dusty scales
Read full poem →Above thy snowy crevices where fall
Pale shrivelled oak leaves, while the snow beneath
Melts at their phantom touch. Another year
Read full poem →But one, shrivelled and green,
And with no scent at all,
Read full poem →Withal a meagre man was Aaron Stark, --
Cursed and unkempt, shrewd, shrivelled, and morose.
A miser was he, with a miser's nose,
Read full poem →Who would have thought my shrivelled heart
Could have recovered greenness? It was gone
Read full poem →And shut it in a match-box.
My shrivelled wings were beaten,
Shed their colours in dusty scales
Read full poem →And boyhood's pleasing haunt like a blossom in the blast
Was shrivelled to a withered weed and trampled down and done,
Till vanished was the morning spring and set the summer sun
Read full poem →2.
A shrivelled, lifeless, vacant form, _5
It lies on my abandoned breast,