All 5 Uses of
wither
in
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
- There were three white-bearded gentlemen, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne, and a withered gentlewoman, whose name was the Widow Wycherly.†
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- "This rose," said Dr. Heidegger, with a sigh, "this same withered and crumbling flower, blossomed five and fifty years ago.†
- Yet, by a strange deception, owing to the duskiness of the chamber, and the antique dresses which they still wore, the tall mirror is said to have reflected the figures of the three old, gray, withered grandsires, ridiculously contending for the skinny ugliness of a shrivelled grandam.†
- "I love it as well thus as in its dewy freshness," observed he, pressing the withered rose to his withered lips.†
- "I love it as well thus as in its dewy freshness," observed he, pressing the withered rose to his withered lips.†
Definition:
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(wither) to shrivel (wrinkle and contract -- usually from lack of water)
or:
to become weaker; or feel humiliated