Definition of withering in English:

withering

adjectiveˈwɪðərɪŋˈwɪðərɪŋ

1Intended to make someone feel humiliated; scornful.
a withering look
Example sentencesExamples
- Combining foxy irony with withering disdain, McDiarmid presents us with the tragedy of a man for whom the mask has become the face.
- Dawson was admired during that torrid series for the gutsy way he willingly took on nightwatchman duties and fearlessly stood up to Australia's withering attack but he only claimed a total of five wickets at 79.60 runs apiece.
- Unlike those who are rallying behind the president, Vidal retains his withering contempt for the man.
- The reform accord was to have been the crowning jewel of the summit, but ended up the target of withering criticism from human rights groups and development organisations who complained of a squandered opportunity.
- Sometimes when we tried to speak Spanish we were met with withering sneers.
- And the group also launched a withering attack on the NFU, claiming it had ‘presided over the collapse of British farming’ by colluding with the Government and big business.
- She sat down in her chair looking furious and just gave me a sneer and a withering look.
- Taking on Garvey's mantle, Marley turned increasingly to Africa as his fame grew, addressing apartheid with the same withering scorn as American artists like Stevie Wonder and Gil Scott Heron.
- He gestured to Straeger, who was looking so disdainfully at her that Voelker could feel the withering contempt radiating from him as though he were telepathic himself.
- She gave me a withering look of utter contempt and proceeded to lecture me at length about the finer nuances of Mother's Day.
- But as the national obsession with Hansie's downfall naturally fades away, the withering gaze of the South African sporting public will return to its first love - the country's rugby team.
- Equally suggestive is her interpretation of Fanon's withering attack upon the postcolonial national bourgeoisie.
- As he turned to leave under the withering gaze of his disappointed superiors, it was discovered that he had not received the decryption code that accompanied the exercise.
- ‘We take credit cards,’ chirped the tall curly brunette - the weaker of the two - who was quickly silenced by a withering glance.
- She is a patient one, and dismissed me with a withering glance.
- Yet, Juan and I - engaged in some innocent hand-holding, far less provocative than what was happening onstage or in the aisles - were the subject of many withering glances.
- Preparing to send Ikeda a withering glower to conceal the sting that throbbed through him after his partner's slight, Shanza jerked in fright instead when he was interrupted.
- As a side note, Michael Sorkin later wrote a withering review of the The Charlottesville Tapes that took the form of a short play, with all dialog rendered in perfectly rhyming couplets.
- But it's Broom, with her self-depreciating good humour and withering disdain for modern materialism, that makes the book so compelling.
- Since November 2, the withering contempt of liberals for ordinary Americans has been astonishing.
Synonyms
scornful, contemptuous, full of contempt, mocking, sneering
scathing, stinging, searing, blistering, biting, devastating
supercilious, disdainful, superior, dismissive
humiliating, mortifying
2(of heat) intense; scorching.
protective cover to escape withering heat
Example sentencesExamples
- What makes the November 14 race different is it will be held in the cool of November instead of in the withering South Carolina heat of Labor Day weekend.
- Despite the withering heat of the plains, still clearly to be seen at the foot of the mountain, this is cool trout country.
- In contemporary North India, a couple of generations in the withering heat of the Gangetic plains turned the Great Moguls from hardy Turkic warlords into pale princes in petticoats.
- As democracy and freedom continue to melt away beneath the withering heat of state-corporate power, it becomes ever more difficult to tell the truth.
- Pan American takes the pound cake for minimalism, and has in the past proven perfect music for driving through desolate landscapes beneath withering heat, or traversing the domain of half-asleepness.
Synonyms
intense, extreme, ferocious, fierce, acute, strong, very great

Derivatives

witheringly

adverbˈwɪðərɪŋliˈwɪðərɪŋli

Her father was the novelist James Kennaway, she had been to private school, and you heard it in her voice. One man witheringly dismissed her as ‘too posh to rock’.
Example sentencesExamples
- She speaks witheringly of ‘the self-righteous idiot’.
- For some reason my taking notes on a laptop bothered him a lot more than all my classmates taking notes in their reporters' notebooks, and when I asked a question he instead witheringly told me to put the laptop away.
- A points deduction, meanwhile, is an unlikely outcome, although Wenger reacted witheringly to the possibility.
- Roger Simon says, witheringly, ‘All in all, this is not an article, more of a place holder, with very little real digging done.’
- Everyone looked at her witheringly.
- ‘People resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour the next car will be,’ he says witheringly.
- ‘What they are doing is robbing women of five years pension,’ he says witheringly.
- Francoise recalled: ‘Dora looked over at me briefly and witheringly.’
- The report was witheringly dismissed as ‘simplistic and misguided’.

Definition of withering in US English:

withering

adjectiveˈwiT͟HəriNGˈwɪðərɪŋ

1Intended to make someone feel mortified or humiliated.
a withering look
Example sentencesExamples
- She sat down in her chair looking furious and just gave me a sneer and a withering look.
- Dawson was admired during that torrid series for the gutsy way he willingly took on nightwatchman duties and fearlessly stood up to Australia's withering attack but he only claimed a total of five wickets at 79.60 runs apiece.
- As a side note, Michael Sorkin later wrote a withering review of the The Charlottesville Tapes that took the form of a short play, with all dialog rendered in perfectly rhyming couplets.
- He gestured to Straeger, who was looking so disdainfully at her that Voelker could feel the withering contempt radiating from him as though he were telepathic himself.
- Preparing to send Ikeda a withering glower to conceal the sting that throbbed through him after his partner's slight, Shanza jerked in fright instead when he was interrupted.
- As he turned to leave under the withering gaze of his disappointed superiors, it was discovered that he had not received the decryption code that accompanied the exercise.
- Equally suggestive is her interpretation of Fanon's withering attack upon the postcolonial national bourgeoisie.
- She is a patient one, and dismissed me with a withering glance.
- But as the national obsession with Hansie's downfall naturally fades away, the withering gaze of the South African sporting public will return to its first love - the country's rugby team.
- But it's Broom, with her self-depreciating good humour and withering disdain for modern materialism, that makes the book so compelling.
- Sometimes when we tried to speak Spanish we were met with withering sneers.
- ‘We take credit cards,’ chirped the tall curly brunette - the weaker of the two - who was quickly silenced by a withering glance.
- Yet, Juan and I - engaged in some innocent hand-holding, far less provocative than what was happening onstage or in the aisles - were the subject of many withering glances.
- The reform accord was to have been the crowning jewel of the summit, but ended up the target of withering criticism from human rights groups and development organisations who complained of a squandered opportunity.
- She gave me a withering look of utter contempt and proceeded to lecture me at length about the finer nuances of Mother's Day.
- And the group also launched a withering attack on the NFU, claiming it had ‘presided over the collapse of British farming’ by colluding with the Government and big business.
- Unlike those who are rallying behind the president, Vidal retains his withering contempt for the man.
- Since November 2, the withering contempt of liberals for ordinary Americans has been astonishing.
- Taking on Garvey's mantle, Marley turned increasingly to Africa as his fame grew, addressing apartheid with the same withering scorn as American artists like Stevie Wonder and Gil Scott Heron.
- Combining foxy irony with withering disdain, McDiarmid presents us with the tragedy of a man for whom the mask has become the face.
Synonyms
scornful, contemptuous, full of contempt, mocking, sneering
2(of heat) intense; scorching.
Example sentencesExamples
- As democracy and freedom continue to melt away beneath the withering heat of state-corporate power, it becomes ever more difficult to tell the truth.
- In contemporary North India, a couple of generations in the withering heat of the Gangetic plains turned the Great Moguls from hardy Turkic warlords into pale princes in petticoats.
- Despite the withering heat of the plains, still clearly to be seen at the foot of the mountain, this is cool trout country.
- What makes the November 14 race different is it will be held in the cool of November instead of in the withering South Carolina heat of Labor Day weekend.
- Pan American takes the pound cake for minimalism, and has in the past proven perfect music for driving through desolate landscapes beneath withering heat, or traversing the domain of half-asleepness.
Synonyms
intense, extreme, ferocious, fierce, acute, strong, very great

nounˈwiT͟HəriNGˈwɪðərɪŋ

1The action of becoming dry and shriveled.
Example sentencesExamples
- The harvest has decreased this year owing to fog in February that caused the withering of flowers, he added.
- You try to imagine the pattern of failure leading to that receding chin; what negative passion finally gave that peculiar withering of the lips.
- A change in colour was usually followed by wilting / withering of the petals.
- Her designs portrayed withering and dying, followed by autumn shades and, finally, a warm, red piece exemplifying how dying is overcome by fashion, design and culture.
- The treatment was maintained until abscission and withering of the shaded leaves.
- In many species the flowers are open permanently, whereby the opening period is terminated by a closure movement, or is terminated by petal withering or abscission.
- When the nails start rusting, they may poison the trees and this may lead to the withering of the trees.
- The seedlings treated under this condition did not reach wilting, withering or death, but suffered severe stunting and leaf yellowing as the duration of stress was prolonged.
- Near the end of November, the villagers saw that there was large-scale withering among their vegetables and they asked the technologists from the town to inspect.
1. 1.1 The action of declining or decaying.
  the withering of trust in this administration
  Example sentencesExamples
  The withering of planning permission after two years is causing particular problems in the process.
  But the trend runs deeper than that, for what we are really witnessing, intellectually and morally, is the slow but inexorable withering of progressive, secular humanism.
  This was marked by ‘de-urbanisation’, the decay of a range of Indus crafts, and the withering of commerce.
  The withering of parties and meaningful debate, and the tendency towards managerialism and oligarchy, raise some very serious questions about the future of political life.
  The year is 1908; no Partition trauma to desecrate the dreams, no withering of hope to spike idealism.

单词	withering
释义	Definition of withering in English: withering adjectiveˈwɪðərɪŋˈwɪðərɪŋ 1Intended to make someone feel humiliated; scornful. a withering look Example sentencesExamples Combining foxy irony with withering disdain, McDiarmid presents us with the tragedy of a man for whom the mask has become the face. Dawson was admired during that torrid series for the gutsy way he willingly took on nightwatchman duties and fearlessly stood up to Australia's withering attack but he only claimed a total of five wickets at 79.60 runs apiece. Unlike those who are rallying behind the president, Vidal retains his withering contempt for the man. The reform accord was to have been the crowning jewel of the summit, but ended up the target of withering criticism from human rights groups and development organisations who complained of a squandered opportunity. Sometimes when we tried to speak Spanish we were met with withering sneers. And the group also launched a withering attack on the NFU, claiming it had ‘presided over the collapse of British farming’ by colluding with the Government and big business. She sat down in her chair looking furious and just gave me a sneer and a withering look. Taking on Garvey's mantle, Marley turned increasingly to Africa as his fame grew, addressing apartheid with the same withering scorn as American artists like Stevie Wonder and Gil Scott Heron. He gestured to Straeger, who was looking so disdainfully at her that Voelker could feel the withering contempt radiating from him as though he were telepathic himself. She gave me a withering look of utter contempt and proceeded to lecture me at length about the finer nuances of Mother's Day. But as the national obsession with Hansie's downfall naturally fades away, the withering gaze of the South African sporting public will return to its first love - the country's rugby team. Equally suggestive is her interpretation of Fanon's withering attack upon the postcolonial national bourgeoisie. As he turned to leave under the withering gaze of his disappointed superiors, it was discovered that he had not received the decryption code that accompanied the exercise. ‘We take credit cards,’ chirped the tall curly brunette - the weaker of the two - who was quickly silenced by a withering glance. She is a patient one, and dismissed me with a withering glance. Yet, Juan and I - engaged in some innocent hand-holding, far less provocative than what was happening onstage or in the aisles - were the subject of many withering glances. Preparing to send Ikeda a withering glower to conceal the sting that throbbed through him after his partner's slight, Shanza jerked in fright instead when he was interrupted. As a side note, Michael Sorkin later wrote a withering review of the The Charlottesville Tapes that took the form of a short play, with all dialog rendered in perfectly rhyming couplets. But it's Broom, with her self-depreciating good humour and withering disdain for modern materialism, that makes the book so compelling. Since November 2, the withering contempt of liberals for ordinary Americans has been astonishing. Synonyms scornful, contemptuous, full of contempt, mocking, sneering scathing, stinging, searing, blistering, biting, devastating supercilious, disdainful, superior, dismissive humiliating, mortifying 2(of heat) intense; scorching. protective cover to escape withering heat Example sentencesExamples What makes the November 14 race different is it will be held in the cool of November instead of in the withering South Carolina heat of Labor Day weekend. Despite the withering heat of the plains, still clearly to be seen at the foot of the mountain, this is cool trout country. In contemporary North India, a couple of generations in the withering heat of the Gangetic plains turned the Great Moguls from hardy Turkic warlords into pale princes in petticoats. As democracy and freedom continue to melt away beneath the withering heat of state-corporate power, it becomes ever more difficult to tell the truth. Pan American takes the pound cake for minimalism, and has in the past proven perfect music for driving through desolate landscapes beneath withering heat, or traversing the domain of half-asleepness. Synonyms intense, extreme, ferocious, fierce, acute, strong, very great Derivatives witheringly adverbˈwɪðərɪŋliˈwɪðərɪŋli Her father was the novelist James Kennaway, she had been to private school, and you heard it in her voice. One man witheringly dismissed her as ‘too posh to rock’. Example sentencesExamples She speaks witheringly of ‘the self-righteous idiot’. For some reason my taking notes on a laptop bothered him a lot more than all my classmates taking notes in their reporters' notebooks, and when I asked a question he instead witheringly told me to put the laptop away. A points deduction, meanwhile, is an unlikely outcome, although Wenger reacted witheringly to the possibility. Roger Simon says, witheringly, ‘All in all, this is not an article, more of a place holder, with very little real digging done.’ Everyone looked at her witheringly. ‘People resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour the next car will be,’ he says witheringly. ‘What they are doing is robbing women of five years pension,’ he says witheringly. Francoise recalled: ‘Dora looked over at me briefly and witheringly.’ The report was witheringly dismissed as ‘simplistic and misguided’. Definition of withering in US English: withering adjectiveˈwiT͟HəriNGˈwɪðərɪŋ 1Intended to make someone feel mortified or humiliated. a withering look Example sentencesExamples She sat down in her chair looking furious and just gave me a sneer and a withering look. Dawson was admired during that torrid series for the gutsy way he willingly took on nightwatchman duties and fearlessly stood up to Australia's withering attack but he only claimed a total of five wickets at 79.60 runs apiece. As a side note, Michael Sorkin later wrote a withering review of the The Charlottesville Tapes that took the form of a short play, with all dialog rendered in perfectly rhyming couplets. He gestured to Straeger, who was looking so disdainfully at her that Voelker could feel the withering contempt radiating from him as though he were telepathic himself. Preparing to send Ikeda a withering glower to conceal the sting that throbbed through him after his partner's slight, Shanza jerked in fright instead when he was interrupted. As he turned to leave under the withering gaze of his disappointed superiors, it was discovered that he had not received the decryption code that accompanied the exercise. Equally suggestive is her interpretation of Fanon's withering attack upon the postcolonial national bourgeoisie. She is a patient one, and dismissed me with a withering glance. But as the national obsession with Hansie's downfall naturally fades away, the withering gaze of the South African sporting public will return to its first love - the country's rugby team. But it's Broom, with her self-depreciating good humour and withering disdain for modern materialism, that makes the book so compelling. Sometimes when we tried to speak Spanish we were met with withering sneers. ‘We take credit cards,’ chirped the tall curly brunette - the weaker of the two - who was quickly silenced by a withering glance. Yet, Juan and I - engaged in some innocent hand-holding, far less provocative than what was happening onstage or in the aisles - were the subject of many withering glances. The reform accord was to have been the crowning jewel of the summit, but ended up the target of withering criticism from human rights groups and development organisations who complained of a squandered opportunity. She gave me a withering look of utter contempt and proceeded to lecture me at length about the finer nuances of Mother's Day. And the group also launched a withering attack on the NFU, claiming it had ‘presided over the collapse of British farming’ by colluding with the Government and big business. Unlike those who are rallying behind the president, Vidal retains his withering contempt for the man. Since November 2, the withering contempt of liberals for ordinary Americans has been astonishing. Taking on Garvey's mantle, Marley turned increasingly to Africa as his fame grew, addressing apartheid with the same withering scorn as American artists like Stevie Wonder and Gil Scott Heron. Combining foxy irony with withering disdain, McDiarmid presents us with the tragedy of a man for whom the mask has become the face. Synonyms scornful, contemptuous, full of contempt, mocking, sneering 2(of heat) intense; scorching. Example sentencesExamples As democracy and freedom continue to melt away beneath the withering heat of state-corporate power, it becomes ever more difficult to tell the truth. In contemporary North India, a couple of generations in the withering heat of the Gangetic plains turned the Great Moguls from hardy Turkic warlords into pale princes in petticoats. Despite the withering heat of the plains, still clearly to be seen at the foot of the mountain, this is cool trout country. What makes the November 14 race different is it will be held in the cool of November instead of in the withering South Carolina heat of Labor Day weekend. Pan American takes the pound cake for minimalism, and has in the past proven perfect music for driving through desolate landscapes beneath withering heat, or traversing the domain of half-asleepness. Synonyms intense, extreme, ferocious, fierce, acute, strong, very great nounˈwiT͟HəriNGˈwɪðərɪŋ 1The action of becoming dry and shriveled. Example sentencesExamples The harvest has decreased this year owing to fog in February that caused the withering of flowers, he added. You try to imagine the pattern of failure leading to that receding chin; what negative passion finally gave that peculiar withering of the lips. A change in colour was usually followed by wilting / withering of the petals. Her designs portrayed withering and dying, followed by autumn shades and, finally, a warm, red piece exemplifying how dying is overcome by fashion, design and culture. The treatment was maintained until abscission and withering of the shaded leaves. In many species the flowers are open permanently, whereby the opening period is terminated by a closure movement, or is terminated by petal withering or abscission. When the nails start rusting, they may poison the trees and this may lead to the withering of the trees. The seedlings treated under this condition did not reach wilting, withering or death, but suffered severe stunting and leaf yellowing as the duration of stress was prolonged. Near the end of November, the villagers saw that there was large-scale withering among their vegetables and they asked the technologists from the town to inspect. 1.1 The action of declining or decaying. the withering of trust in this administration Example sentencesExamples The withering of planning permission after two years is causing particular problems in the process. But the trend runs deeper than that, for what we are really witnessing, intellectually and morally, is the slow but inexorable withering of progressive, secular humanism. This was marked by ‘de-urbanisation’, the decay of a range of Indus crafts, and the withering of commerce. The withering of parties and meaningful debate, and the tendency towards managerialism and oligarchy, raise some very serious questions about the future of political life. The year is 1908; no Partition trauma to desecrate the dreams, no withering of hope to spike idealism.
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