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wilting

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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.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.wiltingwilting - causing to become limp or drooping
wilt
weakening - the act of reducing the strength of something


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While the train flashed through never-ending miles of ripe wheat, by country towns and bright-flowered pastures and oak groves wilting in the sun, we sat in the observation car, where the woodwork was hot to the touch and red dust lay deep over everything.
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he shouted his loudest and most belligerent, as he ruffled like a bravo at the gutter-cat beneath him, so that he sent her crouching, with startlement, lower to the floor, her ears wilting rigidly flat and down, her tail lashing, her head turning about the room so that her eyes might penetrate its obscurest corners in quest of the human whose voice had so cried out.
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Her revolt faded away, her spirit wilting down into her tired flesh.
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