withered

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪðɚd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪðəd/

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• Hyphenation: with‧ered

withered (comparative more withered, superlative most withered)

1. Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XX, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 334:

     Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, →OCLC:

     Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

withered

1. simple past and past participle of wither