withered

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪðɚd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪðəd/

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• Hyphenation: with‧ered

Adjective

withered (comparative more withered, superlative most withered)

1. Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XX, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 334:

     Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.

   • 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), pages 377–378:

     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.

Synonyms

• sere

Translations

shrivelled

Azerbaijani: soluq, solmuş Catalan: pansit (ca) Finnish: kuihtunut (fi), kitulias (fi) French: flétri (fr) Galician: troxo, murcho, rechumido, esmirrado Greek: Ancient: ἰσχνός (iskhnós) Italian: appassito (it) Latin: marcidus Maori: whewhengi Plautdietsch: walkj Portuguese: murcho (pt) Romanian: ofilit (ro), veştejit (ro) Spanish: marchito (es) Swedish: vissen (sv) Vietnamese: hom hem (vi) (of an old person) Welsh: crin (cy)

Verb

withered

1. simple past and past participle of wither