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withered

adjective

1 withered

Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness:
— A lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws.
— He did well despite his withered arm.

synonyms: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, wizen, wizened.

Roget 655: diseased; ailing etc. v.; ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with; indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; ... show more

Roget 160: weak, feeble, debile; impotent etc. 158; relaxed, unnerved, etc. v.; sapless, strengthless, powerless; weakly, ... show more

2 withered

used especially of vegetation Having lost all moisture:
— Withered vines.

synonyms: dried-up, sear, sere, shriveled, shrivelled.


Moby thesaurus: Sanforized, adust, anile, atrophied, attenuated, baked, brittle, burnt, cadaverous, consumed, corky, corpselike, crabbed, debilitated, decrepit, dehydrated, desiccated, doddered, doddering, doddery ... show more.

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