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Webster 1913 Edition
Withered
With′ered
,Adj.
Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away.
– With′ered-ness
, Noun.
Bp. Hall.
Webster 1828 Edition
Withered
WITHERED
,pp.
Definition 2024
withered
withered
English
Adjective
withered (comparative more withered, superlative most withered)
- 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.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter I:
Translations
shrivelled
Verb
withered
- simple past tense and past participle of wither