Withered

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Shriveled, shrunken, or faded from or as if from loss of moisture or sustenance: "the battle to keep his withered dreams intact” ( Time).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of wither.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Shriveled; faded.
  • Having withers (of this or that specified kind).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
  • adj. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
  • Equivalent
    dry    lean    thin   
    Antonym
    swollen    fresh   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    faded    shriveled    wilted    wasted    sear    sere    wizen    blighted    sapless   
    Verb Stem
    wither