All 7 Uses of
wither
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- The other gets rather tiresome, never withering.†
Chpt 6 *
- His unglazed linen collar appeared behind his bent head, soiled by his withering hair.†
Chpt 7
- Age has not withered it.†
Chpt 9
- Something about withering plants I read in a garden.†
Chpt 13
- Besides they say if the flower withers she wears she's a flirt.†
Chpt 13
- Not to speak of hostels, leperyards, sweating chambers, plaguegraves, their greatest doctors, the O'Shiels, the O'Hickeys, the O'Lees, have sedulously set down the divers methods by which the sick and the relapsed found again health whether the malady had been the trembling withering or loose boyconnell flux.†
Chpt 14
- (She raises her blackened withered right arm slowly towards Stephen's breast with outstretched finger) Beware God's hand!†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(wither) to shrivel (wrinkle and contract -- usually from lack of water)
or:
to become weaker; or feel humiliated