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shriveled

adjective as in parched

adjective as in sere

adjective as in shrunken

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My right eye is lazy, shriveled and blind; it moves like an out-of-control marble circling a drain.

I can now see that the hallway is normal sized and has only four doorways, and DD is a shriveled, gray-haired woman with paper-thin wings and rotting horns.

According to the Public Education Review, reheated chicken nuggets, French fries, shriveled hamburgers, iceberg lettuce salads and a bevy of processed foods make up a significant portion of the school lunch program’s offerings.

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Her experience with anchovies was seeing them on Mom’s half of the pizza, where they lay there, smelly and shriveled.

“People are desperate for water,” said Jean Gérald, who was hawking blackened tomatoes and shriveled scallions on a recent day, confident they would sell quickly because food is so scarce in parts of Port-au-Prince.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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