shrunken

  • (s) 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 grey hair
    withered, wizen, wizened, shriveled, shrivelled,
  • (s) 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
    shriveled, shrivelled,

Synonyms

withered wizen wizened shriveled shrivelled

Words of close approximity