skinny and shriveled干瘦
Shriveled Oasis干枯綠洲
Shriveled heart-干枯的心臟
tight and shriveled tongue舌質(zhì)堅(jiān)斂蒼老
1. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture;
"dried-up grass"
"the desert was edged with sere vegetation"
"shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"
"withered vines"
2. 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"
3. 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"