withering
Adjective
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Adjective
withering
- Tending to destroy, devastate, overwhelm or cause complete destruction.
- The D-Day troops came under withering fire.
- Diminishing rapidly.
- The playboy seemed oblivious to his withering fortune as he continued in his decadent lifestyle.
- Tending to make someone feel small; scornful in a mortifying way.
- Jane's mother in law gave her a withering look.
- He made withering remarks about his adversary.
- present participle of wither#English|wither
withering (plural witherings)
- The process by which something withers.
- 1839, William Jenkyn, James Sherman, An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude (page 274)
- Spiritual witherings and decayings are opposite to the word of God.
- 1839, William Jenkyn, James Sherman, An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude (page 274)
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