All 6 Uses of
wither
in
The Hobbit
- And I know where Mirkwood is, and the Withered Heath where the great dragons bred.†
Chpt 1
- Some of the verses were like this, but there were many more, and their singing went on for a long while: The wind was on the withered heath, but in the forest stirred no leaf: there shadows lay by night and day, and dark things silent crept beneath.†
Chpt 7
- The dragon has withered all the pleasant green, and anyway the night has come and it is cold.†
Chpt 12
- Soon he would set all the shoreland woods ablaze and wither every field and pasture.†
Chpt 14
- May his beard wither!
Chpt 17 *wither = to shrivel or become weaker
- This is something like it: The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled!†
Chpt 19
Definition:
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(wither) to shrivel (wrinkle and contract -- usually from lack of water)
or:
to become weaker; or feel humiliated