What does withered mean in English? Meaning of withered definition and abbreviation with examples.
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What is "withered" in English? Definition and Explanations
Meaning of "withered": lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
Adjective
Meaning: lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
Example: 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
he did well despite his withered arm
a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair
Adjective: Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water. 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter I: Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter I: Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
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