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WITHERED
shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened
(adjective) 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”
sere, dried-up, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered
(adjective) (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; “dried-up grass”; “the desert was edged with sere vegetation”; “shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings”; “withered vines”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
withered (comparative more withered, superlative most withered)
Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
Verb
withered
simple past tense and past participle of wither
Source: Wiktionary
With"ered, a.
Definition: Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away.
– With"ered*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
WITHER
With"er, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Withered; p. pr. & vb. n. Withering.] Etym: [OE. wideren; probably the same word as wederen to weather (see Weather, v. & n.); or cf. G. verwittern to decay, to be weather- beaten, Lith. vysti to wither.]
1. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up. Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither Ezek. xvii. 9.
2. To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin This is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered. Shak. There was a man which had his hand withered. Matt. xii. 10. Now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave. Dryden.
3. To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away. "Names that must not wither." Byron. States thrive or wither as moons wax and wane. Cowper.
With"er, v. t.
1. To cause to fade, and become dry. The sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth. James i. 11.
2. To cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture. "Age can not wither her." Shak. Shot forth pernicious fire Among the accursed, that withered all their strength. Milton.
3. To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny. The passions and the cares that wither life. Bryant.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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