Adjective
1. 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 gray hair"2. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture;
"dried-up grass""the desert was edged with sere vegetation""shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings""withered vines"