Synonyms:
shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
Like a withered leaf the moon is blown across the bay
What is the withered thing waiting for, before expiring?
Summoning all the strength of his withered arms, he swung it high in the air.
At length, when October ends, she clutches her offspring's nursery and dies withered.
Withered leaves still clung to the branches of the oak: torn and faded banners of the departed summer.
You are the fig tree which, having failed so many times to bear fruit, at last withered, but God alone can judge your soul.
The squalid and withered person of this hag might well have obtained for her the character of possessing more than human cunning.
But the sun is so burning, that I am afraid the tender plant will be withered, and I don't know if I shall be able to take it any further.'
As Sadaijin was turning over these papers a withered flower, which seems to have marked some particular occasion, dropped from amongst them.
Old Shep, the white-nozzled, stiff-limbed collie, waiting for his time to die, seemed almost more human than the withered, dried-up old woman.