Crossword clues for withering
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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?
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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.
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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.
Withering \With"er*ing\, a. Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade. -- With"er*ing*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
1 Tending to destroy, devastate, overwhelm or cause complete destruction. 2 diminishing rapidly. 3 Tending to make someone feel small; scornful in a mortifying way. n. The act of something that withers. v
(present participle of wither English)
WordNet
adj. wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire" [syn: annihilative, annihilating, devastating]
making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert [syn: annihilating, devastating]
n. any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) [syn: atrophy]
Usage examples of "withering".
At that moment Crim and Ladar opened up a sudden, withering crossfire, and men and horses went down in a bloody mess in the clearing.
Much of the history of cryptology of this time is a patchwork, a crazy quilt of unrelated items, sprouting, flourishing, withering.
The preteen Desdaine triplets, Withering, Scornful, and Derisive, whooped in delight.
Triumphantly, Moyne folded his arms and gave Durand a withering stare, not without a side glance for Cardona.
Had that been done, even to the hint of it, instead of the lordly indifference shown, Gower might have ventured on a suggestion, that the priceless woman he could call wife was fast slipping away from him and withering in her allegiance.
Now was the oment to draw herself up, give him a withering stare and say, me, conic, M.
He could imagine the flaming besom from the sky that they saw descending, flaying and withering them, laying corpses as in windrows, and he shuddered.
Tarantella, tarantula extraordinaire, paused on the stone step, produced a microscopically small lipstick from some hidden part of her anatomy, and raked the family with a withering stare.
They could not reach the palisades in the face of the withering fire from the musketoon, so they constructed a movable palisade of trees, behind which marched the entire band of warriors.
At that point, however, the celebration of the patrimonial state could not but be paradoxical and ambiguous, since the feudal bases of its power were withering away.
We fling the scorps as far as we can across the brown and withering lawn, chase the ducks and geese out, and then lower ourselves gingerly into the pool, whose sides wave green and long and soft and grasping with algae.
Misha said with a deprecatory gesture of his hand, giving Genka and Slava a withering look.
Wellesley ordered the Sergeant Major before giving Sharpe one last withering look and spurring his horse away.
She had enough ego to remain unscorched by the withering winds of abuse that would undoubtedly assail her, however good a book she produced.
Played on the stops of their anatomy As is the mewling music on the strings Of yonder ship-masts by the unweeting wind, Or the frail tune upon this withering sedge That holds its papery blades against the gale?