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UK
/wˈɪltɪd/
]
[ US /ˈwɪɫtɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈwɪɫtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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without energy or will
a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know
the afternoon heat left her feeling wilted
gave a limp handshake -
(of plants) limp due to heat, loss of water, or disease
wilted lettuce
How To Use wilted In A Sentence
- Public and private opinion wilted before the simoon of calamitous report. Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail
- My green onion plant, that had sprouted six inches, suddenly wilted and died.
- On return to air these leaves wilted and yellowed rapidly.
- The hair has grown too long and is wilted. Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
- Add coriander and when wilted, slip the crab claws under the liquid. Times, Sunday Times
- Main course was fillet of beef with a wild mushroom mousse, wasabi and potato rosti, wilted pak-choi and tempura vegetables and hoi-sin jus.
- Dirty clothes lay strewn everywhere, half-full coffee cups grew mold, and the plant on the windowsill had died and wilted. AFTERMATH
- Then sprinkle some ham and some of the wilted spinach. Times, Sunday Times
- The plants wilted because of a lack of water and sunlight.
- But you get what you pay for - chunks of Maine lobster astride poached eggs and croissants, with lemon hollandaise and wilted spinach ($25) or a heady omelet "bearnaise Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
