shrivelled

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Badenoch said the prime minister had "shrivelled" from leadership and called on him to apologise to Epstein's victims.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025

Turnout in local elections that do not coincide with a general election are almost always shrivelled.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2025

The current account surplus has shrivelled and the budget deficit is widening, despite hefty drawdowns from a rainy-day fund.

From Reuters • Feb. 15, 2023

The drought has laid waste to the Somali countryside, leaving crops shrivelled and the scrublands dotted with the corpses of emaciated livestock.

From Reuters • Dec. 13, 2022

When taken out of the stocks his skin was cold and shrivelled; there was no perceptible pulsation in the temporal or radial arteries, and he complained of severe cephalgia ...

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover