wilterv.
/ˈwɪltə/ dialect.
= wilt v.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by poor growth > wither [verb (intransitive)] > wilt or droop
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to miff off1883
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > be inconstant [verb (intransitive)] > become weak in character
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1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) To wilt, or wilter, to wither.
1888 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck B.C. 1887: Ramble in Brit. Columbia xxxiii ‘He just wiltered’..What is wiltering? How did he do it?
1916 R. Cullum Men who Wrought ix The tide of the Prince's anger was too swift for the youthful Prussian's armour of official effrontery. He came near to wiltering before it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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v.1790- go with the territory
- go with the tide
- go with the times
- go without
- go without saying
- go wool-gathering
- go woolgathering
- go woolward
- go wrong
- go your way
- go —— on a person
- go, come to shrift
- go, come, ride a wooing
- go, come, ride on wooing
- go, fall, get to blows
- go, make a procession
- go, make procession
- go, or come, to soil
- go, or to be, a-wandering
- go, or to be, awandering
- go, ride, walk circuit
- go, run or rush around in circles
- go, run or rush round in circles
- go, sail, swim with the stream
- go, send, to the cleaners