Found 3 items, similar to Withering.
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Definition: wither
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Definition: withering
withering
adj 1: wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction;
“possessing annihilative power”;
“a devastating
hurricane”;
“the guns opened a withering fire” [syn:
annihilative,
annihilating,
devastating]
2: making light of;
“afire with annihilating invective”;
“a
devastating portrait of human folly”;
“to compliments
inflated I've a withering reply”- W.S.Gilbert [syn:
annihilating,
devastating]
withering
n : any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of
use) [syn:
atrophy]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Withering
Wither
\With"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Withered; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Withering.] [OE. wideren; probably the same word as
wederen to weather (see
Weather, v. & n.); or cf. G.
verwittern to decay, to be weather-beaten, Lith. vysti to
wither.]
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1. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become
sapless; to dry or shrivel up.
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Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off
the fruit thereof, that it wither? --Ezek. xvii.
9.
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2. To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin? away,
as animal bodies.
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This is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered. --Shak.
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There was a man which had his hand withered. --Matt.
xii. 10.
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Now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave.
--Dryden.
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3. To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away.
“Names
that must not wither.” --Byron.
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States thrive or wither as moons wax and wane.
--Cowper.
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Withering
\With"er*ing\, a.
Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade. --
With"er*ing*ly, adv.
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