1 : 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"
2 : weak and ineffectual
3 : drooping without elasticity; wanting in stiffness; "a flaccid penis"
adjectif
1 : not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
