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▪ I. ˈshrivel, n.
Also 6 shrevel.
[f. shrivel v.]
Something shrivelled up; † pl. wrinkles in the skin; a shrivelled skin; a contracted word.
1547Boorde Brev. Health ii. lviii. (1557) C j, Rvge is the latin woorde. In Englishe it is named shreuels whiche is a runninge together of the skyn in a mans face and necke. 1835Blackw. Mag. XXXVIII. 153 We caught an eel, which we skinned, and wore the shrivel for many a day round our ankle. 1873F. Hall Mod. Engl. 163 Nor is any regard for rule or regularity to be seen..in our decurtate cab, cent, chap..or in such shrivels as aid, alms.
▪ II. shrivel, v.|ˈʃrɪv(ə)l|
Also 7 shriule.
[Origin unknown. (Cf. Sw. dial. skryvla to wrinkle.)]
1. intr. To become contracted and wrinkled or curled up, as from great heat or cold. Also with up, away.
1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus ii. 13 That shortly the heauens themselues shall shriule away like a scrowle. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Shrivel, to Wrinkle, to run up in Wrinkles or Scrolls. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 312 When the Stalks begin to shrivel at the part next the Branch. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 171 This elegant little Agaric is seldom found in full perfection, as it soon shrivels and loses its brilliant colours. 1805Scott Last Minstr. vi. xxxi, When, shriveling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll. 1842Loudon Suburban Hort. 585 The incipient bunches twist and shrivel up just before coming into bloom. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. 392 Two..ulcers which speedily scabbed, shrunk and shrivelled away. 1882Vines tr. Sachs' Bot. 457 It forms a papilla..at the apex which shrivels when the spore ripens.
pass.1588Greene Perimedes 11 Hir face shriueled, and parched with the Sunne. 1604N. F. Fruiterers Secrets 27 When Pippins, and other long lasting fruite, begin to be shriueled. 1798Ferriar Illustr. Sterne iv. 110 That his nose might be shrivelled with cold. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Passion & Princ. v, The lamb was shrivelled up to a cinder. 1885Clodd Myths & Dr. i. iii. 22 So scorched was it..that it was shrivelled to the smallest of creatures.
b. transf. and fig. To be reduced to an inanimate or inefficient condition; (of a person) to shrink physically or mentally.
1680H. More Apocal. Apoc. 60 This Pagan Hierarchy shrivelled up with all the false Deities, and Priests therein. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xx, I swore that my rage and revenge should pursue his enemies, until they shrivelled before me like that scorched-up symbol of annihilation. 1835Lytton Rienzi v. v, I felt his soul shrivel at my gaze. 1875Farrar Silence & Voices ii. 37 All life shrivelled into a miserable ‘if’ and an empty ‘might have been’. 1887Jessopp Arcady iii. 70 Undeveloped faculties that shrivel for want of using.
2. trans. To cause to be contracted or shrunk into wrinkles. Often with up.
1608Shakes. Per. ii. iv. 9 A fire from heaven came and shrivell'd up Their bodies. 1682Grew Anat. Pl. 10 Lest its new access into the Ayr, should shrivel it. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. cv, Crabtree shrivelling up his face like an autumn leaf. 1782A. Monro Compar. Anat. (ed. 3) 5 This..covers the trunk, serving to shrivel the skin, in order to drive off insects. 1856Mrs. Stowe Dred xxxiv, That fearful collapse, which..shrivels the most healthy countenance..to the shrunken..image of decrepit old age. 1877Thomson Voy. Challenger I. i. 17 In the tropics a saturated solution is much too strong, and shrivels up delicate tissues.
b. transf. and fig. To reduce to inanition, helplessness, or ineffectualness.
1663Bp. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. viii. (1687) 30 This is ever the fruit of hard and penurious thoughts of God, that they shrivel up mens hearts too. 1683Howe Union Prot. Wks. 1862 IV. 266 The want of such a diffusive love shuts up and shrivels the destitute parts. 1824–9Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 I. 68 Milton..shrivelled up the lips of his revilers by the austerity of his scorn. 1844Dickens Chimes iii, Wither me and shrivel me, and free me from the dreadful thoughts that tempt me in my youth! 1859Habits Gd. Society ix. 284 How the very thought must have shrivelled her up. 1901Scotsman 12 Mar. 7/4 A passage which the House listened to very closely, fully realising how it finally shrivelled up malignant gossip. |