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wilted

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wilt 1  (wlt)
v. wilt·ed, wilt·ing, wilts
v.intr.
1. To become limp or flaccid; droop: plants wilting in the heat.
2. To feel or exhibit the effects of fatigue or exhaustion; weaken markedly: "His brain wilted from hitherto unprecedented weariness" Vladimir Nabokov.
v.tr.
1. To cause to droop or lose freshness.
2. To deprive of energy or vigor; fatigue or exhaust.
n.
1. The act of wilting or the state of being wilted.
2. Any of various plant diseases characterized by slow or rapid collapse of terminal shoots, branches, or entire plants.
[Possibly alteration of dialectal welk, from Middle English welken.]
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Adj.1.wilted - not firm; "wilted lettuce"
limp
stale - lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age; "stale bread"; "the beer was stale"


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He climbed the fence, threaded his stealthy way through the plants, till he stood under that window; he looked up at it long, and with emotion; then he laid him down on the ground under it, dis- posing himself upon his back, with his hands clasped upon his breast and holding his poor wilted flower.
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" And then he kind of wilted together, and looked like he wished he hadn't spoken so, and then he says, very gentle: "But you needn't say that, Billy; I was took sudden and irritable, and I ain't very well these days, and not hardly responsible.
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The landladies, without exception, had wilted beneath that gaze, and Mr Pickering wilted now.
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