Hypertext Webster Gateway: "withered"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.]
1. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become
sapless; to dry or shrivel up.
Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off
the fruit thereof, that it wither? --Ezek. xvii.
9.
2. To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin? away,
as animal bodies.
This is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered. --Shak.
There was a man which had his hand withered. --Matt.
xii. 10.
Now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave.
--Dryden.
3. To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away. ``Names
that must not wither.'' --Byron.
States thrive or wither as moons wax and wane.
--Cowper.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Withered \With"ered\, a.
Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. --
{With"ered*ness}, n. --Bp. Hall.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
withered
adj 1: lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the
old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and
ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a
man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie;
"he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened
little man with frizzy gray hair" [syn: {shriveled}, {shrivelled},
{shrunken}, {wizen}, {wizened}]
2: (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture;
"dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere
vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered
seedlings"; "withered vines" [syn: {dried-up}, {sere}, {sear},
{shriveled}, {shrivelled}]
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