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Definition of Shrivelling
1. shrivel [v] - See also: shrivel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrivelling
Literary usage of Shrivelling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh, Frances Dorrance (1922)
"THE shrivelling DISEASE OF THE MULBERRY. This disease, at present widely distributed
... Like the mosaic disease, this shrivelling disease also occurs most ..."
2. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"[The ruut jiii, in ¡mica, aspo, is the coming 2 together of ends of a ring,
meeting of sides, hence shrinking in, shrivelling up. ..."
3. Federal Britain: Or, Unity and Federation of the Empire by Francis Peter Labillière (1894)
"... the dead cause of disintegration—shrivelling prescriptions of insular philosophy.
... shrivelling ..."
4. Federal Britain, Or, Unity and Federation of the Empire by Francis Peter Labillière (1894)
"... spirit in the Colonies " — Harm done by Lord Dufferin — Galvanizing the dead
cause of disintegration — shrivelling prescriptions of insular philosophy. ..."
5. The London Medical Gazette (1849)
"... the product of the inflammation is either arrested in its developement, or
even degenerates,—its cells shrivelling up, and gradually wasting. ..."
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