noun
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The act of wilting or the state of being wilted.
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Any of various plant diseases characterized by wilting.
verb
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To droop or become limp and flaccid (as a dying leaf or flower).
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To fatigue; to lose strength.
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To cause to droop or become limp and flaccid (as a flower).
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To cause to fatigue; to exhaust.
Examples of wilts in a Sentence
The roots are prevented from fulfilling their function of taking up water and salts from the soil; the leaves accordingly droop, and the whole plant wilts and in bad attacks dies.
Societies were also formed in Somerset, Wilts, Gloucestershire, Leicester, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire and the south of Yorkshire.
The Wilts and Berks canal, joining the Thames at Abingdon, is disused.
In 785 he was surprised and killed, with all his thegns present, at Marten, Wilts (Merantune), by Cyneheard, brother of the deposed Sigeberht.
It was not incorporated, however, until 1645, when it was made a free borough under the title of "aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Malmesbury, County Wilts."
On the 22nd of January the English were again defeated at Basing, and on the 22nd of March at Marton, Wilts, the two unidentified battles having perhaps occurred in the interval.
By the middle of May his preparations were complete and he moved out of Athelney, being joined on the way by the levies of Somerset, Wilts and Hants.
But they were met by a large force under the three great ealdormen of Mercia, Wilts and Somerset, and forced to head off to the north-west, being finally overtaken and blockaded at Buttington, which some identify with Buttington Tump at the mouth of the Wye, others with Buttington near Welshpool.
In the same year on the 24th of August Peteratte-Wode and William of Wykeham, clerk, were appointed keepers of the rolls and writs in the eyre for the forests of Hants and Wilts, of which Henry Sturmy was one of the justices.
I live in Swindon Wilts and Can collect as long as its not too far away. £ 300 cash waiting!
I live in Swindon Wilts and Can collect as long as its not too far away. £ 300 cash Waiting !
Another telltale sign is that the plant wilts and leaves curl up during the day.
Amesbury was settled about 1644 as a separate part of Salisbury, and in 1654, by mutual agreement of the old and new "towns," became practically independent, although not legally a township until 1666 (named Amesbury, from the English town in Wilts, in 1667).