(Used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture.
1 Now, in late spring, the young crops withered in the dry ground.
2 Eleven years earlier, when she was twenty-five, her right arm had withered .
3 I found it next morning lying withered and brown in the hall-way.
4 The fruits rotted on the branches, and the leaves withered and fell.
5 A splendid vision of sunlit egalitarian uplands after the State withered away.
6 But you will be withered before your time, rather than long after.
7 The dwarf stiffened; he raised his withered arms, and his eyes blazed.
8 The little man seemed withered by the coarse brutality of the reply.
9 Below her the withered leaf heaved; a brown insect crept out, slowly.
10 Peter Marlowe saw Drinkwater talking with a withered RAF corporal called Blodger.
11 All the words he'd rehearsed, ready to snap at her, withered away.
12 Farther away, the withered plants are heaped in rows of little piles.
13 I scarcely felt it at the time, but afterwards the eye withered .
14 One o these withered leaves fell at the feet of the king.
15 The general seized a withered , frail old hand with a strong grip.
16 She also was lame in one foot and had a withered hand.
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