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