to wilt
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3.2
- verb
- /wɪlt/
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marchitarse
- The leaves began to wilt as the sun shone down on the garden.
Here we come with our living fruit baskets and soon to wilt white flowers.
- Here we come with our living fruit baskets and soon to wilt white flowers.
- I throw it the spinach right in there just to wilt it.
- When you plant things when it's so hot, everything just like Wilts, it looks almost like like I shouldn't have planted.
- They will actually wilt and, and lose their, their structure, structural integrity until the weather warms up again.
- It kind of just Wilts a little bit and it pushes water before, you know, as the cold weather comes, it pushes water out of the the leaf.
Examples
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The local variety are all wilted and rotten.
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The flowers would wilt and rot.
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Like that wilted leaf there.
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- They had a lei for me, too, but... it wilted by the time they got here.
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Don't get too worried if your plants look wilted in the middle of the day.
Blog text (31) -
l'm worried my petals are going to wilt before midnight.
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The palm trees drooped and the flowers began to wilt in the blistering sun.
Fiction book (1991) -
The meat spoiled on the cutting board, the vegetables wilted and lost their color.
Fiction book (2000) -
I picked up my heavy silver fork and used it to push around the wilted lettuce in my bowl.
Fiction book (1998) -
These flowers have wilted.
Synonyms
91
4.4
To become dry and weak, as with plants or feelings
22
3.9
To bend down and hang limply because of being tired or without water
To become limp and dry when a plant has no water
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
7.4
A plant disease that makes leaves wilt and turn yellow, caused by a fungus called Fusarium
- Specialized
A disease caused by bacteria that makes tobacco, tomato, and potato leaves wilt and turn yellow
How Wilted
Surface Forms
Etymology
Wilt comes from an old English word meaning 'to dry up', the same root as wither, so when a plant wilts it becomes limp and loses its fresh look as if it has dried out.