What's the difference between shrivel and shriver?
Shrivel
Definition:
(v. i.) To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To cause to shrivel or contract; to cause to shrink onto corruptions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Labour’s vertiginous decline in Scotland has shrivelled what used to be the primary unionist party north of the border.
(2) The time when all the cells became shriveled divided by the cell count expressed in terms of 100,000 cells was used to compare cellular susceptibilities to free radical injury and the relative effectiveness of the antioxidants.
(3) Particles prepared from a low molecular weight (MW 43,000) homopolymer had a shrivelled appearance, but were not porous.
(4) These last elements consisted of prosecretory granules attached to flattened, empty-looking saccules showing buds at their surface; detached, more-or-less fenestrated, flattened saccules; and shrivelled residual trans-tubular networks.
(5) Notwithstanding the fiery rhetoric of the odd union leader , the movement's mainstream is painfully aware of its shrivelled size, and it lacks the cocksure confidence of those distant days when it thought it could count on full employment.
(6) In the recent past a miss so glaring might have left him cowed, his display shrivelling thereafter.
(7) Osborne's faith healing has shrivelled growth, and next year looks worse.
(8) The shrivelling of liberal and green Toryism creates space for the Lib Dems to be clearly differentiated from their frenemies in the coalition.
(9) Nothing suggested by his “big society” actually happened: on the contrary, charities took the full force of cuts to contracts and grants, and public society shrivelled measurably on his watch.
(10) The curator of the collection, Rajeev Sethi, told The New York Times: "The concept of art in public space is a very serious issue because art cannot shrivel up and shrink into investment portfolios or disappear into godowns [warehouses] or galleries.
(11) Some analysts say that his wealth has shrivelled from $28bn in early 2008 to $3.5bn.
(12) These results suggest that, at least acutely in a canine model, IMA graft flow is maintained above in situ levels even when grafted to a completely patent coronary artery and that acute competitive flow probably does not cause mammary artery shriveling.
(13) But it was never just external forces that caused the IPO market to shrivel: investors were also burnt by a series of offers that left them nursing losses.
(14) Constr-uction, once a booming industry, has shrivelled.
(15) In recent weeks the pro-Russian rebels have suffered a series of heavy defeats, losing large chunks of territory, with their empire shrivelled to the two major eastern cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.
(16) The players' revolt which split tennis asunder, shrivelled 1973's Wimbledon championships to a half-baked botch and kick-started a dramatic overturn in the century-long balance of power between the administrators and administered of any major worldwide sport, was triggered because a temperamental and reasonably good Yugoslavian player, Nikki Pilic, decided to play a well-paid doubles tournament in Montreal instead of (for a pittance) a Davis Cup tie for his country against New Zealand.
(17) In the buccopharynx, the major changes following treatment with cadmium were shrinkage of the stratified epithelial cells with shriveling of the microridges and loss of lateral contacts between neighboring epithelial cells.
(18) The question that hangs over the conference season as a whole is the purpose of these shrivelling, staged-managed affairs.
(19) He went fast, lest other patients' eyes lingered on the shrivelled figure.
(20) There were brambles along the hedgerow with shrivelled stalks, and berryless hawthorns.
Shriver
Definition:
(n.) One who shrives; a confessor.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is no accident, therefore, that his granddaughter Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics.
(2) And in our audiobook review, we examine appetite with Lionel Shriver's novel Big Brother, and Jay Rayner's exploration of the food industry, A Greedy Man in a Hungry World.
(3) This is our world now, and it’s going to energise us.” If there’s one writer in tune with the zeitgeist, it’s Lionel Shriver whose high-school massacre novel, We Need to Talk About Kevin, nailed much of contemporary America.
(4) One of her favourite "ups" was shortly after she had been studying the book We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver with some prisoners.
(5) (1982) Biochemistry 21, 3022-3028; Tollemar, U., Cunningham, K., and Shriver, J.W.
(6) Then Lionel Shriver's We Need To Talk About Kevin , at £1,400, is more in your price range.
(7) He apologises to Tim Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics, before the programme is broadcast.
(8) This activating effect of the nucleotides was decreased at 12 degrees C and completely eliminated at 0 degrees C. The results can be explained by assuming that there are two subfragment-1 conformers [Shriver, J. W. & Sykes, B. D. (1981) Biochemistry 20, 2004-2012], and that both the addition of ATP or its analogs, and lowering the temperature, shift the conformational equilibrium in the direction that is more susceptible to thermolysin.
(9) Ty Shipalane equalized in the 75th minute to put on the pressure, then a Brian Shriver match winner came in the 88th to seal it for the Carolina Railhawks - former home of Vancouver coach, Martin Rennie.
(10) Lionel Shriver: Outdoor smoking bans are just spiteful When smoking in enclosed public spaces like pubs and restaurants was banned in the UK in 2007, the prohibition was justified by concern for the health of employees.
(11) This paper reviews case material from 65 patients referred to the Shriver Center for study from January, 1984 to December, 1986.
(12) The Haunting of Sylvia Plath by Jacqueline Rose is published by Virago Lionel Shriver Photograph: Rolph Gobits I read The Bell Jar as an adolescent, and like most teenagers had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her – looks, talent, opportunity, with her "whole life ahead of her," yadda, yadda, yadda – yet was spiralling into misery.
(13) Lionel Shriver is the author of We Need to Talk about Kevin (Serpent's Tail) Margaret Drabble Photograph: Murdo Macleod The Bell Jar is a novel of reckless vitality, and although it's about death, trauma, suicide and madness, it's as exhilarating as its narrator's first mad dash down the ski slope when she manages triumphantly to break her leg in two places.
(14) The 77-year-old Kennedy's absence from last week's funeral for his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, prompted a flurry of questions about his own health.
(15) The transition observed here appears to be the same transition observed by 31P NMR of bound AMP-PNP (Shriver, J., and Sykes, B. D. (1981) Biochemistry 20, 2004-2012).
(16) Earlier this year she hosted a dinner for Mugabe and Tim Shriver, the head of the Special Olympics and a nephew of John and Robert Kennedy.
(17) Volunteers – Keith Allen and Lionel Shriver among them – will neck pills and undergo tests in the name of proper real science.
(18) Henning Mankell, Lionel Shriver, Hanif Kureishi and the antipodean writers CK Stead, Thomas Keneally and Anna Funder are other globally renowned signatories.
(19) Books were written, movies were made, none of which Klebold saw, but she heard about them – the Gus Van Sant film Elephant ; Lionel Shriver’s novel We Need To Talk About Kevin – and they made her shudder.
(20) On the page, the play reminded me of Alan Bennett's 'The History Boys' and also of Lionel Shriver's novel 'We Need to Talk about Kevin' but its tense rhythms are all its own.