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Shmegegges
- noun - (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense
Shopkeeper
- noun - a merchant who owns or manages a shop
Shorteners
- noun - any agent that shortens; "alcohol is a great shortener of life"
Shortening
- verb - act of decreasing in length; "the dress needs shortening"
- become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten"
- edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel"
- fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods
- make short or shorter; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches"
- make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness"
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
Shreveport
- noun - a city in northwest Louisiana on the Red River near the Texas border
Shrivel Up
- verb - wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"
- wither, especially with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"
Shriveling
- verb - decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
- wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"
Shrivelled
- verb - (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"
- decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"
- Dried up
- 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"
- 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"
- wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"
Shrovetide
- noun - immediately preceding Lent
Shuddering
- verb - shake, as from cold; "The children are shivering--turn on the heat!"
- shaking convulsively or violently
- tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement