witheredadj.

Brit.

/ˈwɪðəd/, U.S.

/ˈwɪðərd/

Forms: Middle English–1500s wyddred (ScottishMiddle English wydderit, Middle English–1500s widderit), 1500s wydred, widdered, wydderad, wyddurde, ( wedred, Scottish vidthrid), wyth(e)red, withred ( wethered), 1500s–1600s witherd, 1500s– wither'd, withered.

Etymology: < wither v.² + -ed suffix¹.

1. Of a plant, fruit, etc.: Shrivelled or shrunken through lack of moisture, and so deprived of its natural colour, freshness, or bloom; hence, of fields, or stretches of country, and gen.: Dried up, arid.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by poor growth > [adjective] > withered or dry

withered1488

wizened1513

starven1546

faded1574

starved1578

flaccid1626

davereda1794

wilted1809

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > worn out

perusedc1475

withered1488

laboured1535

outworn1597

worn-out1612

effete1662

frazzled1872

jacked-up1874

crocky1906

bummed1907

rim-racked1916

shot1933

beaten-up1941

beat-up1946

clapped1946

the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > dried (up) > withered

sere824

withered1488

seared1538

forwithered1563

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 1037 Thar auld bulwerk I se off wydderyt ayk.

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 222 in Poems (1981) 12 Thir wydderit peis and nuttis,..Wil brek my teith.

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Husbandman l. 2362 in Poems (1981) 88 It will not win ȝow worth ane widderit neip.

1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. oo.i^v Wedred grasse or hey.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vii. 55 The vidthrid barran feildis.

a1560 T. Becon Jewel of Joy Pref., in Wks. (1564) II. 2 A pece of grosse smokye bacon or saulte withered byefe.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xxi. 110 Manye desartes, sandye, wythered, vnfruitefull.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 466 Wither'd roots.

1637 S. Rutherford Let. 7 Sept. in Joshua Redivivus (1671) 166 Our Lord..shall water with his dew the withered hill of mount Zion in Scotland.

1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise i. i. 3 To the bare Commons of the wither'd Field.

1710 London Gaz. No. 4777/4 A tall thin Man, with withered Hair.

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 215 Wither'd stumps disgrace the sylvan scene.

1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. v. 21 The wither'd leaves, That drop when no winds blow.

1861 E. B. Browning Nature's Remorses x Withered immortelles, long ago cut.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 37 But narrow breadth..Of wither'd holt or tilth.

a. Of men and animals: Physically shrunken, shrivelled, wasted, or decayed; deprived of animal vitality or vigour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > shrunken

empty?c1400

withereda1500

wizened1728

weazen1765

wizen1786

weazened1842

weazeny1864

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [adjective] > withered

forpined1377

contractc1430

withereda1500

forwithered1563

arefacted1599

arefacting1599

corky1603

diminished1607

shrivelled1607

shirpit1821

shriveldy1840

mummified1879

a1500–34 Cov. Corpus Christi Pl. i. 839 Sey ye, wyddurde wyvis, whydder are ye a-wey?

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxix. 143 An olde wydred wiche.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) John v. f. cxxv^v A greate multitude off sicke folke, off blynde, halt, and wyddered.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 240 A witherd Hermight fiuescore winters worne.

1641 J. Milton Animadversions 53 They may as well sue for Nunneries, that they may have some convenient stowage for their wither'd daughters.

1700 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother iii. i Marks which Years set on the wither'd Sage.

1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 421 A poor withered skeleton of humanity.

b. Of the body, or parts of it: Shrivelled or shrunken, esp. by the wasting of disease or age. Formerly, and now colloquial or dialect, often applied to a paralysed limb.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [adjective] > withered > of a part of the body

withered1526

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark iii. f. xlvj^v There was a man which had a widdred honde.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 54/1 Therw^t he plucked vp hys doublet sleue to his elbow..where he shewed a werish withered arme and small.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis v, in tr. Virgil Wks. 346 Take the last Gift my wither'd Arms can yield.

1795–6 W. Wordsworth Borderers ii. 890 Twice did I spring to grasp his withered throat.

1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel Introd. 3 His withered cheek, and tresses gray.

1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 539 The part affected became at first insensible and cold, and, in the progress of the disorder, dry, hard, and withered.

1877 E. Dowden Shakspere (Macmillan Lit. Primers) vi. 79 So..fierce a human energy as that of Richard concentrated within one withered and distorted body.

1920 H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. 552/2 The figure of the new monarch [William II of Germany]..with a withered left arm ingeniously minimized.

3. figurative in immaterial sense: Deprived of or having lost vigour, freshness, or ‘bloom’; shrunken and decayed; †formerly sometimes, reduced to poverty.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > reduced to poverty

broken-fortuned1362

depauperatea1464

peeled?a1513

extenuate1533

withered1561

penured1570

low-ebbed1595

ruined1596

shredded1596

broken1597

beggared1609

impoverisheda1631

necessitated1646

pinched1672

crazy1700

reduced1715

straitened1716

crazed1732

poverty-struck?1750

poverty-stricken?1786

pauperized1807

poverty-smitten1819

distressed1844

out at elbows1885

poverished1900

wiped1977

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [adjective] > declining or deteriorating > in character or quality

infecta1387

palledc1390

rustyc1390

degeneratea1513

withered1561

bastardlike1577

degenerated1581

degenerous1600

bastardized1611

degenerating1611

wormy1611

autumnal1616

blood-shrunk1634

degenered1637

reduced1689

lowered1730

eviscerated1858

labefact1874

disbloomed-

1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer ii. sig. Y.iij In my withered reasoninges.

1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) A 3 b I am returned a begger, and withered.

1637 S. Rutherford Let. 14 July in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 11 The Lord will..make this withered Kirk, to bud again like a rose.

1782 J. Brown in R. Mackenzie Life (1918) 237 Our sacrament is on the 5th Sabbath of June. Pray for our withered corner.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iv. 161 Lay on him the curse of the withered heart.

a1821 J. Keats Hyperion (new ed.) 14 in Misc. Philobiblon Soc. (1856–7) III The pale Omega of a wither'd race.

1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) xi. 285 The blasé youth turns from his withered pleasures.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xv. 299 A grey dusty withered evening in London.

†4.

a. Worn out, ragged. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 165 in Poems (1981) 116 His widderit weid fra him the wind out woir.

†b. = weathered adj. 1. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn > by action of weather

weather-beatena1547

overweathered1600

weather-worn?1609

weather-beat?1615

weather-bita1616

weathered1789

withered1794

weather-scarred1876

weather-roughened1897

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 348 Withered gneiss has sometimes the appearance of a grey slaty mortar.

c. Tea Manufacturing. See wither v.² 4c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [adjective] > dried (of tea)

withered1897

1897 D. Crole Tea vii. 117 Trolly loads of withered leaf.

Compounds

withered-looking adj.

ΚΠ

1849 E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 179 His beard..stunted, tawny, and withered-looking.

Derivatives

ˈwitheredly adv. in a withered manner.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adverb] > in a withered manner

witheredly1659

1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Witheredly, seccamente.

ˈwitheredness n. the condition of being withered; rarely concrete a withered part.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > dryness or witheredness

serenessc1440

witheredness1535

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > condition of having lost freshness

witheredness1535

tarnish1713

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [noun] > state or condition

ebbc1400

decayc1460

witheredness1535

decadencec1550

autumn1590

fall1590

dotage1606

twilight1609

pejority1615

decadency1632

atrophy1653

effeteness1862

wallow1934

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [noun] > withering > witheredness

witheredness1535

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [noun] > withering > a withered part

witheredness1658

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. iii. D And for their bewty wythrednesse and sonneburnynge.

1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 24 Old age..the unweldinesse or witherednesse of the body.

1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid iii. xxiii. 293 That witheredness caused by a fall..I have annointed twice a day.

1722 J. Willison Five Sacr. Serm. in Wks. (1852) 313/2 There usually follows, on God's withdrawing, great witheredness and barrenness on the souls of his people.

1883 G. MacDonald Princess & Curdie iii Every trace of the decrepitude and witheredness she showed..had vanished.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	withered
释义	witheredadj. Brit. /ˈwɪðəd/, U.S. /ˈwɪðərd/ Forms: Middle English–1500s wyddred (ScottishMiddle English wydderit, Middle English–1500s widderit), 1500s wydred, widdered, wydderad, wyddurde, ( wedred, Scottish vidthrid), wyth(e)red, withred ( wethered), 1500s–1600s witherd, 1500s– wither'd, withered. Etymology: < wither v.² + -ed suffix¹. 1. Of a plant, fruit, etc.: Shrivelled or shrunken through lack of moisture, and so deprived of its natural colour, freshness, or bloom; hence, of fields, or stretches of country, and gen.: Dried up, arid. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by poor growth > [adjective] > withered or dry withered1488 wizened1513 starven1546 faded1574 starved1578 flaccid1626 davereda1794 wilted1809 the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > worn out perusedc1475 withered1488 laboured1535 outworn1597 worn-out1612 effete1662 frazzled1872 jacked-up1874 crocky1906 bummed1907 rim-racked1916 shot1933 beaten-up1941 beat-up1946 clapped1946 the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adjective] > dried (up) > withered sere824 withered1488 seared1538 forwithered1563 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 1037 Thar auld bulwerk I se off wydderyt ayk. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 222 in Poems (1981) 12 Thir wydderit peis and nuttis,..Wil brek my teith. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Husbandman l. 2362 in Poems (1981) 88 It will not win ȝow worth ane widderit neip. 1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. oo.i^v Wedred grasse or hey. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vii. 55 The vidthrid barran feildis. a1560 T. Becon Jewel of Joy Pref., in Wks. (1564) II. 2 A pece of grosse smokye bacon or saulte withered byefe. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xxi. 110 Manye desartes, sandye, wythered, vnfruitefull. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 466 Wither'd roots. View more context for this quotation 1637 S. Rutherford Let. 7 Sept. in Joshua Redivivus (1671) 166 Our Lord..shall water with his dew the withered hill of mount Zion in Scotland. 1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise i. i. 3 To the bare Commons of the wither'd Field. 1710 London Gaz. No. 4777/4 A tall thin Man, with withered Hair. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 215 Wither'd stumps disgrace the sylvan scene. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. v. 21 The wither'd leaves, That drop when no winds blow. 1861 E. B. Browning Nature's Remorses x Withered immortelles, long ago cut. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 37 But narrow breadth..Of wither'd holt or tilth. 2. a. Of men and animals: Physically shrunken, shrivelled, wasted, or decayed; deprived of animal vitality or vigour. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [adjective] > shrunken empty?c1400 withereda1500 wizened1728 weazen1765 wizen1786 weazened1842 weazeny1864 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [adjective] > withered forpined1377 contractc1430 withereda1500 forwithered1563 arefacted1599 arefacting1599 corky1603 diminished1607 shrivelled1607 shirpit1821 shriveldy1840 mummified1879 a1500–34 Cov. Corpus Christi Pl. i. 839 Sey ye, wyddurde wyvis, whydder are ye a-wey? 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxix. 143 An olde wydred wiche. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) John v. f. cxxv^v A greate multitude off sicke folke, off blynde, halt, and wyddered. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 240 A witherd Hermight fiuescore winters worne. View more context for this quotation 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 53 They may as well sue for Nunneries, that they may have some convenient stowage for their wither'd daughters. 1700 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother iii. i Marks which Years set on the wither'd Sage. 1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 421 A poor withered skeleton of humanity. b. Of the body, or parts of it: Shrivelled or shrunken, esp. by the wasting of disease or age. Formerly, and now colloquial or dialect, often applied to a paralysed limb. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [adjective] > withered > of a part of the body withered1526 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark iii. f. xlvj^v There was a man which had a widdred honde. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 54/1 Therw^t he plucked vp hys doublet sleue to his elbow..where he shewed a werish withered arme and small. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis v, in tr. Virgil Wks. 346 Take the last Gift my wither'd Arms can yield. 1795–6 W. Wordsworth Borderers ii. 890 Twice did I spring to grasp his withered throat. 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel Introd. 3 His withered cheek, and tresses gray. 1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 539 The part affected became at first insensible and cold, and, in the progress of the disorder, dry, hard, and withered. 1877 E. Dowden Shakspere (Macmillan Lit. Primers) vi. 79 So..fierce a human energy as that of Richard concentrated within one withered and distorted body. 1920 H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. 552/2 The figure of the new monarch [William II of Germany]..with a withered left arm ingeniously minimized. 3. figurative in immaterial sense: Deprived of or having lost vigour, freshness, or ‘bloom’; shrunken and decayed; †formerly sometimes, reduced to poverty. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > reduced to poverty broken-fortuned1362 depauperatea1464 peeled?a1513 extenuate1533 withered1561 penured1570 low-ebbed1595 ruined1596 shredded1596 broken1597 beggared1609 impoverisheda1631 necessitated1646 pinched1672 crazy1700 reduced1715 straitened1716 crazed1732 poverty-struck?1750 poverty-stricken?1786 pauperized1807 poverty-smitten1819 distressed1844 out at elbows1885 poverished1900 wiped1977 the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [adjective] > declining or deteriorating > in character or quality infecta1387 palledc1390 rustyc1390 degeneratea1513 withered1561 bastardlike1577 degenerated1581 degenerous1600 bastardized1611 degenerating1611 wormy1611 autumnal1616 blood-shrunk1634 degenered1637 reduced1689 lowered1730 eviscerated1858 labefact1874 disbloomed- 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer ii. sig. Y.iij In my withered reasoninges. 1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) A 3 b I am returned a begger, and withered. 1637 S. Rutherford Let. 14 July in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 11 The Lord will..make this withered Kirk, to bud again like a rose. 1782 J. Brown in R. Mackenzie Life (1918) 237 Our sacrament is on the 5th Sabbath of June. Pray for our withered corner. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iv. 161 Lay on him the curse of the withered heart. a1821 J. Keats Hyperion (new ed.) 14 in Misc. Philobiblon Soc. (1856–7) III The pale Omega of a wither'd race. 1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) xi. 285 The blasé youth turns from his withered pleasures. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xv. 299 A grey dusty withered evening in London. †4. a. Worn out, ragged. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 165 in Poems (1981) 116 His widderit weid fra him the wind out woir. †b. = weathered adj. 1. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worn > by action of weather weather-beatena1547 overweathered1600 weather-worn?1609 weather-beat?1615 weather-bita1616 weathered1789 withered1794 weather-scarred1876 weather-roughened1897 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 348 Withered gneiss has sometimes the appearance of a grey slaty mortar. c. Tea Manufacturing. See wither v.² 4c. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [adjective] > dried (of tea) withered1897 1897 D. Crole Tea vii. 117 Trolly loads of withered leaf. Compounds withered-looking adj. ΚΠ 1849 E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 179 His beard..stunted, tawny, and withered-looking. Derivatives ˈwitheredly adv. in a withered manner. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [adverb] > in a withered manner witheredly1659 1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Witheredly, seccamente. ˈwitheredness n. the condition of being withered; rarely concrete a withered part. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > dryness or witheredness serenessc1440 witheredness1535 the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > condition of having lost freshness witheredness1535 tarnish1713 the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [noun] > state or condition ebbc1400 decayc1460 witheredness1535 decadencec1550 autumn1590 fall1590 dotage1606 twilight1609 pejority1615 decadency1632 atrophy1653 effeteness1862 wallow1934 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [noun] > withering > witheredness witheredness1535 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [noun] > withering > a withered part witheredness1658 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. iii. D And for their bewty wythrednesse and sonneburnynge. 1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 24 Old age..the unweldinesse or witherednesse of the body. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid iii. xxiii. 293 That witheredness caused by a fall..I have annointed twice a day. 1722 J. Willison Five Sacr. Serm. in Wks. (1852) 313/2 There usually follows, on God's withdrawing, great witheredness and barrenness on the souls of his people. 1883 G. MacDonald Princess & Curdie iii Every trace of the decrepitude and witheredness she showed..had vanished. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1488
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