withered
adjective
1. lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
- a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws
- he did well despite his withered arm
- a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair
Similar word(s): lean, thin, shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, wizen, wizened
2. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
- the desert was edged with sere vegetation
- withered vines
Similar word(s): dry, sear, sere, shriveled, shrivelled
verb
1. simple past tense and past participle of wither