Shrivel vs Withed - What's the difference?
shrivel | withed |
To collapse inward; to crumble.
To become wrinkled.
To draw into wrinkles.
(withe)
A flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy.
* 1997': Perhaps indifferent to their social Rejection, he sets to work separating his Tree into Poles, Sticks, and '''Withes , and placing them wherever in the Structures of Dam or Lodge he feels they need to go. — Thomas Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon
(nautical) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured.
(architecture) A partition between flues in a chimney.
To bind with s.
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As verbs the difference between shrivel and withed
is that shrivel is to collapse inward; to crumble while withed is past tense of withe.shrivel
English
Verb
(shrivell) (UK ) (en-verb) (US )- I saw him shrivel on the ground in fear.
- His fingers were shriveled from being in the bath for too long.
- The hot sun shrivelled the leaves.
