All 3 Uses of
wither
in
Babbitt
- Three tables off, with a doubtful sort of woman, a woman at once coy and withered, was Paul Riesling, and Paul was supposed to be in Akron, selling tar-roofing.†
Chpt 19 *
- If for a moment he had seen Tanis as withering and sentimental, he lost that impression at Carrie Nork's dance.†
Chpt 29
- Incredulously he remembered that he had by his roaring familiarity with them laid himself open to the patronizing of youths whom he would have kicked out of his office; that by dancing too ardently he had exposed himself to rebukes from the rattiest of withering women.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(wither) to shrivel (wrinkle and contract -- usually from lack of water)
or:
to become weaker; or feel humiliated