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adj. - Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture.

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Usage examples (37)
  • Verb (used without object) : The grapes had withered on the vine
  • These hang in withered mournfulness above this living image of their departed mother.
  • Hence it was called the withered hand, Mt 12: 10-13.
  • They hold up every hideous kind of withered arm, distorted leg, and unsightly stump.
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