'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
- 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,
- Sanforized,
- 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