(n.) To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up.
(n.) To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin/ away, as animal bodies.
(n.) To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away.
(v. t.) To cause to fade, and become dry.
(v. t.) To cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture.
(v. t.) To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny.
Example Sentences:
(1) It ended with a withering putdown: “I’m leaving Downing Street 10 times more sceptical than I was before ,” Juncker told his host.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest José Mourinho launched a withering attack on the lack of atmosphere generated by Chelsea’s home supporters after their 2-1 victory against QPR , saying it felt like his side were playing at an “empty stadium”.
(3) Though intraspinal narcotic analgesia is associated with a number of side effects, with proper knowledge these adverse reactions are wither preventable or can be greatly reduced.
(4) An obese man with a withered leg limps down Tollcross Road, eating pizza from a cardboard box.
(5) They may be in power, but institutional support is withering away.
(6) We’d been working in Atlantic City, four in the afternoon to four in the morning, six sets, opening for everybody that came through – the Emotions, Bill Withers, the Pointer Sisters – and they were all really encouraging: “You girls are really good, you should stick with it.” That kind of solidified our desire to continue, but our record company, Atlantic, didn’t quite know what to do with us.
(7) But if the coalition does keep together for four more years, then that's four more years of Lib Dem withering and four more years to gather a treasure chest to reward Tory voters.
(8) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
(9) Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.
(10) There is a brief compensatory detour into the wonders Blair worked in Northern Ireland, but the essential verdict remains withering.
(11) Her original concept was that he might shed the kingly mantle, be just a poor player strutting, but he couldn’t get out fast enough from his prosthetic withered arm.
(12) Faced with the audience, some of the candidates flourished; others withered.
(13) Covers followed including versions of Bill Withers's Who Is He (And What Is He To You?)
(14) Katya Gorchinskaya, deputy editor of the Kyiv Post, said that after years of corruption and budget starvation, Ukraine's army resembled a "withered muscle".
(15) Less noticed, because less obviously political, are current intellectual rumblings, of which French economist Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century , a withering indictment of growing inequality, is the latest manifestation.
(16) Capital was more rewarded than labour, regions withered and exports and manufacturing suffered.
(17) Through the searing summer heat, the Mexican immigrant to California’s Central Valley and his family endured a daily routine of collecting water in his pickup truck from an emergency communal tank, washing from buckets and struggling to keep their withering orchard alive while they waited for snow to return to the mountains and begin the cycle of replenishing the aquifer that provides water to almost all the homes in the region.
(18) Press lobbying On the press lobbying for self-regulation, Leveson is withering, saying he does not find "the self-interested lobbying of the press to be an appropriate matter for press regulation".
(19) The major component of vitellogenin labeled wither in vivo or in culture has a molecular weight of approximately 180,000 as shown by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(20) A review of chloroquine and sulfa-antifol combination treated falciparum malaria patients revealed a high incidence of chloroquine-resistance, wither R1 or R2, in patients infected in Southeast Asia or Oceania.
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Example Sentences:
(1) • The Film weekly podcast saw host Jason Solomons talk to ... Bruce Robinson (director of Withnail & I) about his new film The Rum Diary ... Errol Morris (director of The Thin Blue Line) about Tabloid - his documentary on Joyce McKinney and the "Manacled Morman" case ... and Guardian film critic Xan Brooks (director of people to decent movies), who helped Jason review Arthur Christmas , The Awakening and Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights .
(2) 1Wuthering Heights Her wild eyes, flailing limbs and high-pitched vocals instantly made her ripe for parody , but it was the sheer emotional force of Wuthering Heights that made Kate Bush’s debut single a smash.
(3) Wuthering Heights is also about many other things besides that relationship.
(4) But this has always been the fate of Wuthering Heights.
(5) He'd been watching Wuthering Heights and he said 'You're a bit like Heathcliff.
(6) A canny follow-up to Wuthering Heights, it showcased a softer side to her voice and banished any lingering suspicions that this strange woman might be a one-hit oddity.
(7) I have only one question to ask the 2,000 readers who, according to a new poll for UKTV Drama, have just voted Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights the greatest love story of all time.
(8) Moreover, what would happen to small-scale, high-impact films such as Shame , Wuthering Heights , The Deep Blue Sea and We Need to Talk About Kevin ; all low-budget, "difficult" films that required a "cultural" imperative to get off the ground?
(9) Wuthering Heights forsakes Arnold's beloved housing estates altogether – though even the most forbidding of these would resemble Paris in springtime next to the rain-lashed moors near the Pennine Way where Arnold filmed her adaptation.
(10) Wuthering Heights is pretty much my most treasured novel, astonishing with every reading.
(11) Gone was the wide-eyed, shrill-voiced ingenue of Wuthering Heights.
(12) But the two most influential culprits of the modern era are Hollywood and the Bronte industry, which in their separate but related ways have conspired to belittle Wuthering Heights and to reduce Emily Bronte to someone barely connected to the real world.
(13) Her younger sister, Emily Brontë, wrote Wuthering Heights.
(14) STV had not always lost out when it had passed up the chance to screen new ITV drama, Hain said: the seven-year-old Daniela Nardini drama Sirens recently did better in Scotland than Wuthering Heights had across the rest of the UK.
(15) Just 1,236 answered a question on Pride and Prejudice, a mere 285 tackled Far from the Madding Crowd, and only 187 braved Wuthering Heights.
(16) Sober Charlotte (Jane Eyre) Bronte not crazy Emily (Wuthering Heights) Bronte.
(17) His first wake-up call to dance, at the age of 13, was watching a friend act out Bush's Wuthering Heights .
(18) During a 35-year recording career Bush has travelled from the theatrical teen prodigy of Wuthering Heights to 80s pagan-pop goddess to a more wistful chronicler of the power of the elements.
(19) The production wasn't undiluted hardship: there were raucous weekend shindigs, says Arnold, who hired a Kate Bush impersonator to sing Wuthering Heights for the wrap party.
(20) The effect, though, has always been the same - to make Wuthering Heights something less than the book actually is.