Illustration: On an apartment balcony, a resident discovers that a potted flowering plant has wilted in the afternoon heat. Its intact stems bend downward, leaves hang limply, and formerly open blossoms have contracted into soft, wrinkled shapes.

しぼむ

shibomu

to wilt, to shrivel

Example sentences

花はなは切きられるとすぐにしぼむ。
Flowers soon fade when they have been cut.
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花はながしぼんだ。
The flowers withered up.
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暑あつさ続つづきでその植物しょくぶつはしぼんでしまった。
The long spell of hot weather withered up the plants.
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