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Webster 1913 Edition


Withered

With′ered

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Adj.
Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away.
With′ered-ness
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Noun.
Bp. Hall.

Webster 1828 Edition


Withered

WITHERED

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pp.
Faded; dried; shrunk.

Definition 2024


withered

withered

English

Adjective

withered (comparative more withered, superlative most withered)

  1. Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
    • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter I:
      Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with [] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

Translations

Verb

withered

  1. simple past tense and past participle of wither