Definition of "shrivelling" []

• Present participle of shrivel. (verb)

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• "Certainly when I was doing it regularly myself, between twenty and twenty-five years ago, there seemed to be a lot of competition; now I guess a combination of increased concerns about crime (from both hitcher and driver) and a general shrivelling of generosity in society has cut down drastically on the numbers."
• "He felt himself shrinking and shrivelling as she stepped out on the stoop."
• "Developed and developing nations were united when confronted with the collapse of world trade and the shrivelling of industrial output but are finding it harder to keep the show on the road now that the immediate crisis is over."