Withering
['wɪðərɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wither
(a.) Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade.
Edited by Gertrude
Examples
- I said, with withering irony, that it was sufficient to be skinned--I declined to be scalped. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Bergmann gave him a withering look of scorn, and said, 'Come here and I will show you. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Why this withering eloquence? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And she was a leaf of the old great tree of knowledge that was withering now. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Diggory withdrew with an emphatic step, Wildeve's eye passing over his form in withering derision, as if he were no more than a heath-cropper. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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