| shabby | (adjective) mean and unworthy and despicable | - |
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| (adjective) showing signs of wear and tear | Synonyms: moth-eaten, ratty, tatty |
| shackled | (adjective) bound by chains fastened around the ankles | Synonyms: fettered |
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| shaded | (adjective) protected from heat and light with shade or shadow | - |
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| (adjective) (of pictures or drawings) drawn or painted with degrees or gradations of shadow | - |
| shadowed | (adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowy, shady, umbrageous |
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| shadowy | (adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness | Synonyms: dim, faint, vague, wispy |
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| (adjective) lacking in substance | Synonyms: wraithlike |
| (adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowed, shady, umbrageous |
| shady | (adjective) quiet, dark, or concealed | - |
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| (adjective) of questionable honesty or legality | - |
| (adjective) not as expected | Synonyms: fishy, funny, suspect, suspicious |
| (adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous |
| shagged | (adjective) having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags | Synonyms: shaggy |
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| shaggy | (adjective) having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags | Synonyms: shagged |
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| (adjective) used of hair; thick and poorly groomed | Synonyms: bushy, shaggy-coated, shaggy-haired |
| shakable | (adjective) capable of being weakened | Synonyms: shakeable |
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| shakeable | (adjective) capable of being weakened | Synonyms: shakable |
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| shakedown | (adjective) intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system | - |
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| shaken | (adjective) disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock | Synonyms: jolted |
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| shaky | (adjective) not secure; beset with difficulties | Synonyms: precarious |
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| (adjective) inclined to shake as from weakness or defect | Synonyms: rickety, wobbly, wonky |
| (adjective) vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze | Synonyms: shivering, trembling |
| shallow | (adjective) lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center | - |
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| (adjective) not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply | - |
| (adjective) lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious | - |
| sham | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on |
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| shamanist | (adjective) of or relating to shamanism | Synonyms: shamanistic |
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| shamanistic | (adjective) of or relating to shamanism | Synonyms: shamanist |
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| shambolic | (adjective) (British slang) disorderly or chaotic | - |
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| shamed | (adjective) suffering shame | Synonyms: discredited, disgraced, dishonored |
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| (adjective) showing a sense of guilt | Synonyms: guilty, hangdog, shamefaced |
| shamefaced | (adjective) extremely modest or shy | - |
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| (adjective) showing a sense of shame | Synonyms: sheepish |
| (adjective) showing a sense of guilt | Synonyms: guilty, hangdog, shamed |
| shameful | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious |
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| (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: disgraceful, scandalous, shocking |
| shameless | (adjective) feeling no shame | Synonyms: unblushing |
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| shaped | (adjective) having the shape of | - |
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| (adjective) shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort) | Synonyms: molded, wrought |
| shapeless | (adjective) having no definite form or distinct shape | Synonyms: amorphous, formless |
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| (adjective) lacking symmetry or attractive form | - |
| shapely | (adjective) having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape | - |
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| shaping | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: formative, plastic |
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| shared | (adjective) have in common; held or experienced in common | - |
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| (adjective) distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose | Synonyms: divided, divided up, shared out |
| sharing | (adjective) unselfishly willing to share with others | - |
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| sharp | (adjective) having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing | - |
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| (adjective) (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone | - |
| (adjective) keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point | - |
| (adjective) (of something seen or heard) clearly defined | Synonyms: crisp |
| (adjective) quick and forceful | - |
| (adjective) having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones | Synonyms: shrill |
| (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing |
| (adjective) ending in a sharp point | Synonyms: acuate, acute, needlelike |
| (adjective) marked by practical hardheaded intelligence | Synonyms: astute, shrewd |
| (adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: abrupt, precipitous |
| (adjective) very sudden and in great amount or degree | - |
| (adjective) harsh | Synonyms: sharp-worded, tart |
| sharpened | (adjective) having the point made sharp | - |
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| (adjective) made sharp or sharper | - |
| shattered | (adjective) ruined or disrupted | Synonyms: tattered |
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| shattering | (adjective) seemingly loud enough to break something; violently rattling or clattering | - |
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| shatterproof | (adjective) resistant to shattering or splintering | Synonyms: splinterless, splinterproof |
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| shaved | (adjective) having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin | Synonyms: shaven |
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| shaven | (adjective) having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin | Synonyms: shaved |
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| sheared | (adjective) having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers | Synonyms: shorn |
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| (adjective) (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length | - |
| sheathed | (adjective) enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination | - |
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| shed | (adjective) shed at an early stage of development | Synonyms: caducous |
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| sheeny | (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, shining, shiny |
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| sheepish | (adjective) showing a sense of shame | Synonyms: shamefaced |
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| (adjective) like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity | Synonyms: sheeplike |
| sheeplike | (adjective) like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity | Synonyms: sheepish |
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| sheer | (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down |
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| (adjective) not mixed with extraneous elements | Synonyms: plain, unmingled, unmixed |
| (adjective) very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front | Synonyms: bluff, bold |
| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
| sheetlike | (adjective) resembling a sheet | - |
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| shelflike | (adjective) resembling a shelf (or considered to resemble a shelf) | - |
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| shelfy | (adjective) full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals | Synonyms: reefy, shelvy, shoaly |
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| shelled | (adjective) of animals or fruits that have a shell | - |
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| shellproof | (adjective) able to resist the explosive force of bombs and shells | Synonyms: bombproof |
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| sheltered | (adjective) protected from danger or bad weather | - |
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| shelvy | (adjective) full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals | Synonyms: reefy, shelfy, shoaly |
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| shielded | (adjective) (used especially of machinery) protected by a shield to prevent injury | - |
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| shifting | (adjective) (of soil) unstable | Synonyms: unfirm |
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| (adjective) changing position or direction | Synonyms: shifty |
| (adjective) continuously varying | - |
| shiftless | (adjective) lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative | - |
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| shifty | (adjective) changing position or direction | Synonyms: shifting |
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| (adjective) characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive | Synonyms: devious |
| shimmery | (adjective) glistening tremulously | - |
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| shingly | (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: gravelly, pebbly |
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| shining | (adjective) marked by exceptional merit | - |
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| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny |
| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, lustrous, shiny |
| shiny | (adjective) having a shiny surface or coating | Synonyms: glazed |
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| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining |
| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining |
| shipboard | (adjective) casual or ephemeral as if taking place on board a ship | - |
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| shipshape | (adjective) characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder | Synonyms: trim, well-kept |
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| shirty | (adjective) (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed | Synonyms: snorty |
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| shitless | (adjective) (used as complement) to the utmost degree | Synonyms: witless |
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| shitty | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, stinking, stinky |
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| shivering | (adjective) vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze | Synonyms: shaky, trembling |
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| shivery | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: chilling, scary, shuddery |
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| (adjective) cold enough to cause shivers | - |
| shoaly | (adjective) full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals | Synonyms: reefy, shelfy, shelvy |
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| shockable | (adjective) capable of being shocked | Synonyms: narrow-minded |
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| shocked | (adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation | Synonyms: aghast, appalled, dismayed |
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| shocking | (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: disgraceful, scandalous, shameful |
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| (adjective) glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism | Synonyms: lurid |
| shod | (adjective) wearing footgear | Synonyms: shodden, shoed |
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| (adjective) used of certain religious orders who wear shoes | Synonyms: calced |
| shodden | (adjective) wearing footgear | Synonyms: shod, shoed |
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| shoddy | (adjective) unethical or dishonest | Synonyms: dirty, sordid |
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| (adjective) made of inferior workmanship and materials | Synonyms: cheapjack, tawdry |
| shoed | (adjective) wearing footgear | Synonyms: shod, shodden |
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| shoeless | (adjective) without shoes | Synonyms: barefoot, barefooted |
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| shopsoiled | (adjective) worn or faded from being on display in a store | Synonyms: shopworn |
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| shopworn | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| (adjective) worn or faded from being on display in a store | Synonyms: shopsoiled |
| shoreward | (adjective) (of winds) coming from the sea toward the land | Synonyms: inshore, onshore |
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| shorn | (adjective) having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers | Synonyms: sheared |
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| short | (adjective) (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range | Synonyms: forgetful, unretentive |
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| (adjective) (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length | - |
| (adjective) primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration | - |
| (adjective) low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal | Synonyms: little |
| (adjective) of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration | - |
| (adjective) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices | - |
| (adjective) tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening | - |
| (adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, brusque, curt |
| (adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, shortsighted, unforesightful |
| (adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, jejune, poor |
| (adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: light, scant |
| shortened | (adjective) with parts removed | Synonyms: cut |
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| (adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: abbreviated, truncated |
| (adjective) shortened | Synonyms: sawed-off, sawn-off |
| (adjective) shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another | Synonyms: telescoped |
| shorthand | (adjective) written in abbreviated or symbolic form | - |
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| shortish | (adjective) somewhat short | - |
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| shortsighted | (adjective) unable to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: myopic, nearsighted |
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| (adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, short, unforesightful |
| (adjective) not given careful consideration | Synonyms: ill-considered, ill-judged, improvident |
| shot | (adjective) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles | Synonyms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent |
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| shouldered | (adjective) having shoulders or shoulders as specified; usually used as a combining form | - |
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| shouted | (adjective) in a vehement outcry | Synonyms: yelled |
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| showery | (adjective) (of weather) wet by periods of rain | Synonyms: rainy |
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| showy | (adjective) superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense | Synonyms: glossy |
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| (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, sporty |
| (adjective) marked by ostentation but often tasteless | Synonyms: flamboyant, splashy |
| (adjective) displaying brilliance and virtuosity | - |
| shredded | (adjective) prepared by cutting | Synonyms: chopped, sliced |
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| shrewd | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming |
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| (adjective) marked by practical hardheaded intelligence | Synonyms: astute, sharp |
| shrewish | (adjective) continually complaining or faultfinding | Synonyms: nagging |
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| shrieked | (adjective) uttered in a shrill scream as of pain or terror | - |
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| shrill | (adjective) of colors that are bright and gaudy | - |
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| (adjective) having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones | Synonyms: sharp |
| (adjective) being sharply insistent on being heard | Synonyms: strident |
| shrimpy | (adjective) (used especially of persons) of inferior size | Synonyms: puny, runty |
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| shrinkable | (adjective) capable of being shrunk | - |
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| shriveled | (adjective) reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity | Synonyms: shrivelled, shrunken |
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| (adjective) (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture | Synonyms: dried-up, sear, sere, shrivelled, withered |
| (adjective) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness | Synonyms: shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened |
| shrivelled | (adjective) reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity | Synonyms: shriveled, shrunken |
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| (adjective) (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture | Synonyms: dried-up, sear, sere, shriveled, withered |
| (adjective) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness | Synonyms: shriveled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened |
| shrubby | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a shrub | Synonyms: fruticose, fruticulose |
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| shrunken | (adjective) reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity | Synonyms: shriveled, shrivelled |
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| (adjective) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness | Synonyms: shriveled, shrivelled, withered, wizen, wizened |
| shuddering | (adjective) shaking convulsively or violently | - |
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| shuddery | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: chilling, scary, shivery |
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