withered

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪðɚd/
• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪðəd/

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• Hyphenation: with‧ered

Adjective

withered (comparative more withered, superlative most withered)

1. Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XX, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 334:

     Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.

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Translations

shrivelled

• Catalan: pansit (ca)
• Finnish: kuihtunut, kitulias (fi)
• French: flétri (fr)
• Galician: troxo
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἰσχνός (iskhnós)

• Italian: appassito (it)
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• Latin: marcidus
• Portuguese: murcho (pt)
• Romanian: ofilit (ro), veştejit (ro)
• Spanish: marchito (es)
• Vietnamese: hom hem (vi) (of an old person)
• Welsh: crin (cy)

Verb

withered

1. simple past and past participle of wither