withered

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwɪðə(ɹ)d/
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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.

Translations

shrivelled

Catalan: pansit (ca)
Finnish: kuihtunut, kitulias (fi)
French: flétri (fr)
Galician: troxo
Italian: appassito (it)

Portuguese: murcho (pt)
Romanian: ofilit (ro), veştejit (ro)
Spanish: marchito (es)
Vietnamese: hom hem (vi) (of an old person)
Welsh: crin (cy)

Verb

withered

simple past tense and past participle of wither

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