'Withered' definitions:

Definition of 'withered'

(from WordNet)
adjective
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 grey hair" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened]
adjective
(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, withered]

Definition of 'Withered'

From: GCIDE
  • Withered \With"ered\, a. Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. -- {With"ered*ness}, n. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Withered'

From: 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.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up. [1913 Webster]
  • Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? --Ezek. xvii. 9. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin? away, as animal bodies. [1913 Webster]
  • This is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • There was a man which had his hand withered. --Matt. xii. 10. [1913 Webster]
  • Now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away. "Names that must not wither." --Byron. [1913 Webster]
  • States thrive or wither as moons wax and wane. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'withered'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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