All 3 Uses of
wither
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- His yellow rags of shirt lay open at the throat, and showed his body to be withered and worn.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- On inanimate nature, as on the men and women who cultivated it, a prevalent tendency towards an appearance of vegetating unwillingly—a dejected disposition to give up, and wither away.†
Chpt 2.8
- Hear me, my dead baby and my withered father: I swear on my knees, on these stones, to avenge you on Foulon!†
Chpt 2.22
Definition:
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(wither) to shrivel (wrinkle and contract -- usually from lack of water)
or:
to become weaker; or feel humiliated