shrivel

The government's announcement that it will crank up defence spending and shrivel the international aid budget amounts to a big shift in strategy, posture and political positioning.

We, on the other hand, will be long gone by then, shriveled by some far more minor cataclysm like the fragile little primates we are.

On the lower end of skills and pay, apparel employment shriveled as Southern California garment makers focused on fashion and small quantities, eliminating tens of thousands of manual labor jobs.

No. 26 was in worse condition, the decomposition further along but still not enough to obscure the scarlet bruising on the shriveling skin of his forehead.

The Mountain Fire had scorched some of the fruit, leaving it shriveled or in ashes.