英语词汇“withering”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

withering

/ˈwɪðərɪŋ

adjective

1Intended to make someone feel humiliated; scornful: a withering look...

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 it's Broom, with her self-depreciating good humour and withering disdain for modern materialism, that makes the book so compelling.

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...

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.
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.

Derivatives

witheringly

/ˈwɪðərɪŋli

/ adverb ...

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’.
The report was witheringly dismissed as ‘simplistic and misguided’.
She speaks witheringly of ‘the self-righteous idiot’.

单词	withering
释义	withering /ˈwɪðərɪŋ / adjective 1Intended to make someone feel humiliated; scornful: a withering look... 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 it's Broom, with her self-depreciating good humour and withering disdain for modern materialism, that makes the book so compelling. 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... 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. 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. Derivatives witheringly /ˈwɪðərɪŋli / adverb ... 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’. The report was witheringly dismissed as ‘simplistic and misguided’. She speaks witheringly of ‘the self-righteous idiot’.
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