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発音

• enPR: shrĭ'vəl, IPA: /ˈʃɹɪvəl/
• 韻: -ɪvəl

動詞

shrivel (third-person singular simple present shrivels, present participle (US) shriveling or (UK) shrivelling, simple past and past participle (US) shriveled or (UK) shrivelled)

1. (intransitive) To collapse inward; to crumble.

   The plant shrivelled from lack of water.

   • 2019 August 13, Greg Rosalsky, “Is Our Economy In The Upside Down?”, in NPR‎, archived from the original on 1 February 2020:

     This Upside Down economy was the product, Hansen said, of a shriveling population, the closing of the frontier and the maturing of industries.

2. (intransitive) To become wrinkled.

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

3. (transitive) To draw into wrinkles.

   The hot sun shrivelled the leaves.

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