| 单词 | withered |
| 释义 | withered (once / 724 pages) adj If someone or something is shriveled or shrunken with age, it is withered. If your skin is looking a little withered from being out in the sun all the time, it's time for a really good moisturizer. The adjective withered is also used to describe vegetation that has dried up or shriveled from loss of moisture. If you've ever seen a raisin, you can picture exactly what happens when a grape becomes withered — it becomes shrunken and wrinkled. Withered is from the word wither, which etymologists suggest is a variant of weather from the same Old English word weder. WORD FAMILYwither: withered, withering, withers+/withering: witheringly, witherings USAGE EXAMPLESWashington Irving described Madison as “but a withered little apple-John.” New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) Within a few years, they'd withered away into political obscurity. BBC(Dec 28, 2016) He withered to 80 pounds and was infected with typhus in a Nazi medical experiment, the Wall Street Journal reported in a 2007 profile. Washington Post(Dec 08, 2016) 1adj lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie he did well despite his withered arm Syn shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, wizen, wizened lean, thin lacking excess flesh 2adj (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture withered vines Syn dried-up, sear, sere, shriveled, shrivelled dry free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet |
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