Word Finder - withering

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To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water.

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To cause to shrivel or dry up.

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To lose vigour or power; to languish; to pass away.

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To become helpless due to emotion.

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To make helpless due to emotion.

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To go against, resist; oppose.

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The process by which something withers.

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Tending to destroy, devastate, overwhelm or cause complete destruction.

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The D-Day troops came under withering fire.

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Diminishing rapidly.

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The playboy seemed oblivious to his withering fortune as he continued in his decadent lifestyle.

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Tending to make someone feel small; scornful in a mortifying way.

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He made withering remarks about his adversary.

Rhyn gave Katie a long, withering look that she bore with crossed arms.

Alex glanced up from the paperwork, giving Rob a withering look.

She crossed her arms and sat on the arm of the couch, pinning him with a withering look.

Boris was right to go and expose himself to their withering scorn.

I did not answer very quickly, so some colleagues gave me withering glances.

Kinerase contains kinetin, a plant-based antioxidant that was first discovered by scientists who noticed that it prevented plant leaves from withering and drying out.

The foliage in some of the numerous varieties is almost evergreen, and in Britain is retained long after the autumnal withering.

With their withering away the state will also wither away.

Lenin envisaged the gradual withering away of the state from the very beginnings of workers ' power.

Only then will the prospects of the withering away of the state open up.

Where black and oolong teas go through withering, rolling, oxidizing, drying, and sorting, green and white teas are not oxidized, or fermented, as part of processing.

When a child has primarily motor delays, conditions such as cerebral palsy, ataxia, spina bifida, spinal muscular atrophy (withering) and myopathy may be present.

He began one recent withering critique of Government foreign policy with " an unashamed admirer of my right hon.

Centrifugal migration is usually a matter of compulsion; it may be necessitated by natural causes, such as a change of climate leading to the withering of pastures or destruction of agricultural land, to inundation, earthquake, pestilence or to an excess of population over means of support; or to artificial causes, such as the wholesale deportation of a conquered people; or to political or religious persecution.

The website carries a withering critique of the government 's response to the Royal Commission report.

With their withering away the state will also withering away the state will also wither away.

Withering, who, in his Account of the Foxglove (1785), gave details of upwards of zoo cases chiefly dropsical, in which it was used.

The principal difference from the manner described of making black tea lies in the omission of the withering and fermenting, and the substitution for those of a steaming or panning process.

The descent of the priest into the sacrificial foss symbolized the death of Attis, the withering of the vegetation of Mother Earth; his bath of blood and emergence the restoration of Attis, the rebirth of vegetation.

About the beginning of September the crop is ripe, which is known by the withering of the leaves; the bulbs are then to be pulled, and exposed on the ground till well dried, and they are then to be put away in a store-room, or loft, where they may be perfectly secured from frost and damp.

I can read Islamic extremists who say much the same thing, and deserve the same withering contempt.

She gave him a withering look, wondering what crack he was smoking to think he did her any favor by bringing her here instead of to a hospital.