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withered

 adjective
     
Related topics: Plants, Illness and Disability
with‧ered
1HBP a withered plant has become drier and smaller and is dead or dying
2 a withered person looks thin and weak and old
3MI a withered arm or leg has not developed properly and is thin and weak
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