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Shriveled
- adjective - (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"
- 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"
Sibilance
- unknown - a hissing sound - from sibilant
Sibilancy
- - The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation.
Sibilants
- noun - a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)
Sibilated
- verb - express or utter with a hiss
- make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval
- pronounce with an initial sibilant
- utter a sibilant
Sibilates
- verb - express or utter with a hiss
- make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval
- pronounce with an initial sibilant
- utter a sibilant
Siciliana
- unknown - An old dance or tune in six-beat or twelve-beat time
Siciliano
- - A Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a rather slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure; also, the music to the dance.
Silicated
- - Combined or impregnated with silicon or silica; as, silicated hydrogen; silicated rocks.