What is "wilted"

Usage examples of "wilted".

There was a small bunch of white narcissi, already wilted, the stems wrapped in aluminum foil.

The wilted voile dress went first, followed by layered petticoats, kid slippers, stockings and garters.

Two more maids waited inside, wearing only short white smocks and wilted hair.

Instead he watched a spider spin a delicate web between the tassels of a table-cloth on which a vase of flowers wilted.

The smell of beeswax furniture polish, and of wilted chrysanthemums, and the lingering aroma of bedpan and disinfectant.

He let his eyes fall on the small brick fortnow emptythat had held the laser, and the rows of cairns in the southeast corner of the Roof of the World, cairns from which bloodflowers had sprouted and half wilted.

Finally the noise ceased, the sand stopped blowing, and the segments of the aeroshell drooped to the ground like wilted petals of a huge metal flower.

Turk went under the gun and smashed a left and right to the body, and then as Boling wilted, he turned and lunged down the stairway after the fleeing girl.

Schilling studied the problem for several months, while field after field of Wild Whip's choicest Cayennes wilted and died from the infestation.

They were known as chechaquos, and they always wilted at the application of the name.

Uka tasted it, then added peeled thistle stalks, mushrooms, lily buds and roots, watercress, milkweed buds, small immature yams, cranberries carried from the other cave, arid wilted flowers from the previous day's growth of day lilies for thickening.

These scarves, so artfully draped, were silk, nothing else would do, and their colours shocked and awakened the dreariest of clothes, the wilted navy blazers that French-women wear or those cheap black cardigans they try to get away with.

What the golem said as he wrenched the prickly crown off was not comprehensible, since it was in plant language, but a bleeding heart vine blushed, a trumpet lily sounded a retreat, an artillery plant fired off a salute, and a never-never plant wilted.

A Campfire Girl probed at the wilted ears with her rubber spear from Frontierland until an attendant made her stop.

We peeled the shrimp, then wilted the vegetables in canola oil, and added tomatoes and garlic.