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withered |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wither \With"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Withered}; p. pr & vb n. {Withering}.] [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? away as animal bodies. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Withered \With"ered\, a. Faded; dried up shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away -- {With"ered*ness}, n. --Bp. Hall. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: withered adj 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 gray hair" [syn: {shriveled}, {shrivelled}, {shrunken}, {wizen}, {wizened}] 2: (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" [syn: {dried-up}, {sere}, {sear}, {shriveled}, {shrivelled}]
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