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Blighted vs Withered - What's the difference?

blighted | withered |

As verbs the difference between blighted and withered

is that blighted is past tense of blight while withered is past tense of wither.

As adjectives the difference between blighted and withered

is that blighted is having suffered a blight while withered is shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.

blighted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (blight)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having suffered a blight
  • having caused to suffer a blight
  • ruined, spoiled

    • Derived terms

    * blighted ovum * unblighted

    See also

    * blight

    Anagrams

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    withered

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
  • *
  • *:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, withon one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (wither)