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withered

/with-er/US // ˈwɪð ər //UK // (ˈwɪðə) //

凋零,凋谢,枯萎,枯萎的

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to shrivel; fade; decay: The grapes had withered on the vine.
    • : to lose the freshness of youth, as from age.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make flaccid, shrunken, or dry, as from loss of moisture; cause to lose freshness, bloom, vigor, etc.: The drought withered the buds.
    • : to affect harmfully: Reputations were withered by the scandal.
    • : to abash, as by a scathing glance: a look that withered him.

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Examples

  • Left to fight a losing battle in the Republican Party, as the recent CPAC confirmed, the withering pro-democracy faction is up against frightening odds.

  • The brass blade won’t rust or wear down and it won’t scratch your windshield wither.

  • The story he remembers hearing is that his grandfather wanted his father to become a partner in crime, but his dad refused, and their relationship withered.

  • The companies are not, of course, planning on withering away any time soon.

  • He has also unleashed withering dissents of weak enforcement actions and has been unafraid to go it alone.

  • Why this reluctant partnership might be best left to wither.

  • But as time goes by, Chloe falls ill and begins to wither away.

  • Will he, like Khal Drogo before him, wither away from an infected wound?

  • Three words and you were on the floor because their breath would wither your face.

  • And second, the right-wing political class, operatives and people at think tanks, who want the welfare state to wither away.

  • How long shall the land mourn, and the herb of every field wither for the wickedness of them that dwell therein?

  • In those glooms the sinews of mental energy wither with dying hope.

  • Then I shall wither in single blessedness; I shall be unhappily not married instead of unhappily married.

  • Never let another child strike the boy, for that child would at once wither and die.

  • Should I leave this incomparable flower to wither unseen on these rough mountains?