Withered

Pronunciation

Full definition of withered

Adjective

1. Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
• 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody Chapter 1, Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with...on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

Verb

1. withered

   (past of wither)