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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Wither \With"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Withered}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Withering}.] [OE. wideren; probably the same word as
   wederen to weather (see {Weather}, v. & n.); or cf. G.
   verwittern to decay, to be weather-beaten, Lith. vysti to
   wither.]
   1. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become
      sapless; to dry or shrivel up.

            Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off
            the fruit thereof, that it wither?    --Ezek. xvii.
                                                  9.

   2. To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin? away,
      as animal bodies.

            This is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered. --Shak.

            There was a man which had his hand withered. --Matt.
                                                  xii. 10.

            Now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave.
                                                  --Dryden.

   3. To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away. ``Names
      that must not wither.'' --Byron.

            States thrive or wither as moons wax and wane.
                                                  --Cowper.

Withered \With"ered\, a.
   Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. --
   {With"ered*ness}, n. --Bp. Hall.

資料來源 : WordNet®

withered
     adj 1: lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the
            old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and
            ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a
            man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie;
            "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened
            little man with frizzy gray hair" [syn: {shriveled}, {shrivelled},
             {shrunken}, {wizen}, {wizened}]
     2: (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture;
        "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere
        vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered
        seedlings"; "withered vines" [syn: {dried-up}, {sere}, {sear},
         {shriveled}, {shrivelled}]