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Whithered vs Withered - What's the difference?

whithered | withered |

As verbs the difference between whithered and withered

is that whithered is past tense of whither while withered is past tense of wither.

As an adjective withered is

shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.

whithered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (whither)

    • whither

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (literary, or, archaic) To which place.
  • * 1918 , , Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 8
    • The wagon jolted on, carrying me I knew not whither .
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  • * 1885 , , Penguin Red Classics, paperback edition, page 24
    • And with the same grave countenance he hurried through his breakfast and drove to the police station, whither the body had been carried.

    Usage notes

    * This word is unusual in modern usage; where is much more common. It is more often encountered in older works, or when used poetically. * Do not confuse with whether'' or ''wither .

    Derived terms

    * anywhither * nowhither * whitherward * whitherever

    Synonyms

    * whereto

    Antonyms

    * whence

    Related terms

    * hither * thither

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive, obsolete, dialectal) To wuther.
    • English interrogative adverbs

    withered

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
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  • *: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)