withered 音标拼音: [w'ɪðɚd]
adj . 零落
零落
withered adj 1 :
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 " [
synonym : {
shriveled }, {
shrivelled },
{
shrunken }, {
withered }, {
wizen }, {
wizened }]
2 : (
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 " [
synonym : {
dried -
up }, {
sere }, {
sear },
{
shriveled }, {
shrivelled }, {
withered }]
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 .
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Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof ,
and cut off the fruit thereof ,
that it wither ? --
Ezek .
xvii .
9 .
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2 .
To lose or want animal moisture ;
to waste ;
to pin ?
away ,
as animal bodies .
[
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This is man ,
old ,
wrinkled ,
faded ,
withered . --
Shak .
[
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There was a man which had his hand withered . --
Matt .
xii .
10 .
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Now warm in love ,
now with '
ring in the grave .
--
Dryden .
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3 .
To lose vigor or power ;
to languish ;
to pass away . "
Names that must not wither ." --
Byron .
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States thrive or wither as moons wax and wane .
--
Cowper .
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Withered \
With "
ered \,
a .
Faded ;
dried up ;
shriveled ;
wilted ;
wasted ;
wasted away . --
{
With "
ered *
ness },
n . --
Bp .
Hall .
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92 Moby Thesaurus words for "
withered ":
Sanforized ,
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 ,
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
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