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Withering

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Withering is an adjective meaning Tending to destroy, devastate, overwhelm, or cause complete destruction.

Meaning

Tending to destroy, devastate, overwhelm, or cause complete destruction.

More Meanings

  1. Diminishing rapidly.
  2. Tending to make someone feel small; scornful in a mortifying way.
  3. present participle and gerund of wither
  4. The process by which something withers.

Example Sentences

The D-Day troops came under withering fire.
He made withering remarks about his adversary.
Jane's mother in law gave her a withering look.
The playboy seemed oblivious to his withering fortune as he continued in his decadent lifestyle.

Word Forms

Synonyms for withering

Depending on context, synonyms include atrophy, devastating, annihilative, destructive, disrespectful, annihilating.

atrophydevastatingannihilativedestructivedisrespectfulannihilating

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include destructive, devastating, annihilative, disrespectful, atrophy, annihilating.

destructivedevastatingannihilativedisrespectfulatrophyannihilatingshrinkingexcruciatingserefordonedevastatedwasteddisintegratingobliterativeundercorrosivewastingdisintegrativeobliteratedgutted

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