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Withered

//ˈwɪðɚd// adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.

    "Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was."

Adjective
  1. 1
    lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness wordnet
  2. 2
    (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of wither form-of, participle, past

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