Definition of withered
English to English adjective - Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away.
source: Webster 1913 adjective satellite - 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. He did well despite his withered arm. A wizened little man with frizzy grey hair.
source: WordNet 3.0 - (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.
source: WordNet 3.0
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withered, witherod, weathered, witherite, watered, whitherward, waterweed, white-haired, whiteheart, watery-eyed, whittret, waterret, whitewort, waterwithe, water-rate, whitethroat, widowerhood, waterrot, water rat, watertath
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