withered

Definition von withered im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: Simple past tense and past participle of wither; Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water; past of wither; Withered is used to describe someone's leg or arm when it is thin and weak because of disease or injury. She has one slightly withered leg, noticeably thinner than the other; Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away; If you describe a person or a part of their body as withered, you mean that they are thin and their skin looks old. her withered hands; {s} wilted, drooping; shriveled; wasted, decayed; 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"; (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"; anhydrous
withered leaves: dry leaves, pale leaves
wither: To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water
wither: To cause to shrivel or dry up
wither: Against, in opposition to
wither: To go against, resist; oppose
wither: {v} to fade, pine away, die, make to fade
wither: 1. (to cause) to become weak and dry and decay: "Grass had withered in the fields."2 Slowly disappear, lose importance or become weaker: "This country is in danger of allowing its industrial base to wither away."
wither: To make helpless due to emotion
wither: To cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture
wither: If a flower or plant withers, it dries up and dies. The flowers in Isabel's room had withered. if plants wither, they become drier and smaller and start to die (Probably from weather )
wither: To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up
wither: To become helpless due to emotion
wither: wither, especially with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled"
wither: If someone or something withers, they become very weak. When he went into retirement, he visibly withered Industries unable to modernise have been left to wither. Wither away means the same as wither. To see my body literally wither away before my eyes was exasperating
wither: To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin&?; away, as animal bodies
wither: To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny
wither: To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away
wither: To cause to fade, and become dry
wither: {f} wilt, fade; become shriveled; degenerate; cause to be ashamed (as with a look of scorn); harm; shrivel, dry
wither: lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; "Her bloom was fading"