Withered

Definition: Withered

Withered

Adjective

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 gray hair".

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".

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Date "withered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Industry

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Synonyms: Withered

Disease

Morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered; rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core; withered, palsied, paralytic;dyspeptic; luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic; syntectic, syntectical; tabetic, varicose.

Weakness

Broken, lame, withered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied; decrepit.

Crosswords: Withered

With broken hands and withered souls (Holes; writing credit: Louis Sachar)

When I feel my withered roots begin to grow (You're My Home; performing artist: Joe)

The Withered Arm (1973)

Withered Hands (1914)

My Withered Tomato Friend (1991)

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Books

• Assessment and Esl: On the Yellow Big Road to the Withered of Oz (reference)

• Even Withered Trees Give Prosperity to the Mountain: And Other Proverbs of Japan (reference)

• I am the withered man (reference)

• The Withered Arm and Other Stories: 1877-1888 (Penguin Classics) (reference)

• The withered branch : six studies in the modern novel (reference)

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Corn withered by heat and chewed by grasshoppers. Terry, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Bob held his withered little hand in his, as if he loved the child, and wished to keep him by his side, and dreaded that he might be taken from him.

With this withered heart, he had a dry eye.

If the young thrusting plant withered in drought or drowned in a flood of rain, it was no more to the driver than to the tractor

Those plants of whose greenness withered we make herb tea for the sick serve but a humble use, and are most employed by quacks

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Expression using "withered": a withered hand. Additional references.

Beginning with "withered": withered-looking.

Albanian

i vyshkët (shrivelled), i tharë (blasted, bone dry, dried, dried up, dry, gaunt, husky, jerked, jerky, parched, rough-dry, thirsty), i flashkët (faded, floppy, forceless, indolent, lifeless, listless), i fishkur (faded, sere, wasted, wizen, wizened, wrinkled). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ذاو (wilting, wizened), ‏ذابل (blasted, dry, passe, sear, sere, shrivelled, staleness, tatty, wizened). (various references)

Bulgarian 

увехнал (dead, sear, sere), отслабнал (diminished, lean, peaked, peaky, pinched, pinch-faced, spare, thin), повяхнал (drooping, faded, worn). (various references)

Chinese 

萎 (spiritless, wither), 凋枯 (Wither, Withering), 凋 . (various references)

Czech

zvadlý (dead, faded, flaccid, sapless, sear), uschlý (dead), scvrklý (shrunken, wizen, wizened, wrinkled). (various references)

Danish

forvasket (faded), farveløs (faded), bleg (pale, sallow). (various references)

Dutch

verlept, verflenst. (various references)

Finnish

nahistunut, kuihtunut (faded). (various references)

French

flétri (wilted, wizened), fané (wizen, wizened). (various references)

German

welk (faded, fading, flaccid, limp, tired-looking, wilted, wilting), verblühte (withers), gewelkt (wilted). (various references)

Greek 

μαραμένος. (various references)

Hebrew 

מצומק (parched, shrivelled, shrunken, wizened, wrinkled), קמל (sere), כמוש (dried, faded, sere), � בול (disgust, filth, obscenity, repulsiveness). (various references)

Hungarian

hervadt (blighted, sear, sere, wilted), fonnyadt (parched, sear, sere, weazened, wizen, wizened). (various references)

Indonesian

layu (fade, sear, swift, wilt), kurus (gaunt, lean, meagre, skinny, thin), alum (faded, wilted). (various references)

Italian

sfiorito (faded, withers), secco (arid, dried, dry, offhand, offhanded, sharp, short, skinny, thin), avvizzito (sapless), appassito (sere). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

立ち枯れ (blighted), くすくす笑う (and yet, boldly, clearly, distinctly, exhausted, in spite of, sobbing noise, though, to be dull, to be exhausted, to be quiet, to crumple up, to darken, to die, to giggle, when). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たちがれ (blighted), くたくた (exhausted). (various references)

Korean 

� 사하�". (various references)

Manx

shirgit (atrophied, contracted, decrepit, dried up, gaunt, jerked, mummified, shrivelled, shrunken, wilted, wizened), fiojit (decayed, faded, perished, washed-out, washed-out colour), fioghit (blighted, decadent, decayed, faded, wizened), creent (ripened), creen (decayed, diminutive, ripe, sapless, trifling). (various references)

Pig Latin

itheredway.(various references)

Portuguese

murcho (sear, seared, sere), estiolado, desbotado (dingy, foxy, lacklustre, rusty, washed-out, washy). (various references)

Romanian

stins (departed, dim, extinct, extinguished, faded, faint, ghastly, out, sickly), pãlit (pale, scorched, sun-burnt), ofilit (sere, wilting), lânced (feeble, weak), ars (burnt, diddled, grieved, hot, scorched), îngãlbenit (yellow). (various references)

Russian 

сморщенный (contracted, pursy, shrunken, wizen, wrinkled), вянуть (fade, languish, wilt, wither), высохший (wizened). (various references)

Scottish

crìon (little, mean, shrivelled). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uveo (faded, wilted), usahnuo (bone dry). (various references)

Spanish

marchito (dead, drooping, droopy, overblown, sear, sere, shrivelled, wizened). (various references)

Swedish

vissnad, vissen (faded), skrumpen (shrivelled, shrunken, wizened). (various references)

Turkish

solmuş (discolored, discoloured, etiolated, faded, off color, off colour, overblown, rusty, washed out, washy), pörsük (shrivelled up, weazened, wizen, wizened), kalmamış (out, out of print), bozulmuş (abashed, broken down, cankered, contaminated, corrupt, degenerate, flyblown, gone, out, putrid, rank, ropy, ruined, spoilt, unmade, upset, wrecked). (various references)

Turkmen 

agajet (wrinkled). (various references)

Ukrainian

сухий (arid, brut, chilly, drained, dried, dry, dryasdust, dusty, saharan, saharian, sear, sere), висохлий (sapless, wizen, wizened), морхлий, зморшкуватий (lined, rugged, rugose, rugous, wrinkled, wrinkly), змарнілий (peaked), збляклий, посохлий. (various references)

Welsh

gwyw (arid, faded, sear), crisbin (crisp, parched), crin (arid, dry, sear), crebach (shrunk). (various references)

ariditate, marcidus, vietus. (various references)

mat. (various references)

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Derivations

Words ending with "withered": swithered. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Withered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Wathelet, Wihtraed, witheres, witherite. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: diether, thewier, writhed.

-2 letters: dewier, dieter, dither, either, heired, reedit, retied, tiered, wether, whited, whiter, withed, wither, writhe.

-3 letters: deter, eider, ether, heder, hewed, hewer, hider, hired, ither, retie, rewed, rewet, tewed, their, there, third, three, threw, tired, treed, tried, tweed, twier, weird, where, white, wider, width, wired, wited, withe, wried, write.

-4 letters: deer.

+1 letter: swithered.

+2 letters: headwaiter, whitebeard.

+3 letters: breadthwise, headwaiters, underweight, weatherized, whitebeards.

+4 letters: overweighted, overwithheld, underweights.

+5 letters: hundredweight.