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shriveled

adjective as in parched

adjective as in sere

adjective as in shrunken

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He pointed out similarities between Babb’s descriptions of still-born babies as being “all dried up; even his tongue is dry” and like “a little old man,” and Steinbeck’s character Rosasharn’s stillborn being described as a “shriveled little mummy” that “never breathed” and “never was alive.”

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

But mostly they found shriveled twigs or bare dirt next to the planting flags, which doubled as little tombstones.

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.

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

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