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Meanings of withered in inglês

(Used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture.

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Usage of withered in inglês
1
Now, in late spring, the young crops withered in the dry ground.
Bones of the Dragon
2
Eleven years earlier, when she was twenty-five, her right arm had withered.
American Gods
3
I found it next morning lying withered and brown in the hall-way.
The Millionaire Baby
4
The fruits rotted on the branches, and the leaves withered and fell.
The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories
5
A splendid vision of sunlit egalitarian uplands after the State withered away.
Wired
6
But you will be withered before your time, rather than long after.
The Dreaming Place
7
The dwarf stiffened; he raised his withered arms, and his eyes blazed.
The Moon Pool
8
The little man seemed withered by the coarse brutality of the reply.
The Night-Born
9
Below her the withered leaf heaved; a brown insect crept out, slowly.
The Adventures of Maya the Bee
10
Peter Marlowe saw Drinkwater talking with a withered RAF corporal called Blodger.
King Rat
11
All the words he'd rehearsed, ready to snap at her, withered away.
The evolutionary void
12
Farther away, the withered plants are heaped in rows of little piles.
Jean François Millet / A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Po...
13
I scarcely felt it at the time, but afterwards the eye withered.
Allan and the Holy Flower
14
One o these withered leaves fell at the feet of the king.
Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends
15
The general seized a withered, frail old hand with a strong grip.
The Point Of Honor: A Military Tale
16
She also was lame in one foot and had a withered hand.
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common