shrivel

Universal Words verb (-ll-, AmE -l-) ~ (sth) (up) to become or make sth dry and WRINKLED from heat, cold or old age: [V] The leaves on the plant had shrivelled up from lack of water. * [VN] The prolonged hot weather had shrivelled the grapes in every vineyard. shrivelled adjective: He had become a shrivelled old man.