Withered

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]
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     1. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become
        sapless; to dry or shrivel up.
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              Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off
              the fruit thereof, that it wither?    --Ezek. xvii.
                                                    9.
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     2. To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin? away,
        as animal bodies.
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              This is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered. --Shak.
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              There was a man which had his hand withered. --Matt.
                                                    xii. 10.
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              Now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     3. To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away. "Names
        that must not wither." --Byron.
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              States thrive or wither as moons wax and wane.
                                                    --Cowper.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Withered \With"ered\, a.
     Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. --
     {With"ered*ness}, n. --Bp. Hall.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "withered":
     Sanforized, adust, anile, atrophied, attenuated, baked, brittle,
     burnt, cadaverous, consumed, corky, corpselike, crabbed,
     debilitated, decrepit, dehydrated, desiccated, doddered, doddering,
     doddery, dried, dried-up, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated,
     evaporated, exsiccated, feeble, fossilized, gerontal, gerontic,
     haggard, hollow-eyed, infirm, jejune, marantic, marasmic,
     mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummified, mummylike, palsied, papery,
     papery-skinned, parched, parchmenty, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor,
     preshrunk, puny, ravaged with age, rickety, run to seed, rusty,
     scorched, sear, seared, senile, sere, shaky, shriveled,
     shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, starved, starveling,
     stricken in years, sun-dried, sunbaked, tabetic, tabid, thin,
     timeworn, tottering, tottery, underfed, undernourished, wasted,
     wasted away, weak, weazened, weazeny, wilted, wind-dried, wizen,
     wizen-faced, wizened, wraithlike, wrinkled