Adjective
1. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness;
"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 gray hair"2. reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity;
"our shriveled receipts during the storm""as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled""the dollar's shrunken buying power"3. reduced in size by being drawn together;
"the shrunken dress was entirely too tight to wear"