Wittered vs Withered - What's the difference?
wittered | withered |
(witter)
(intransitive, intransitive, obsolete, or, dialectal) to make sure, inform, or declare.
to speak at length on a trivial subject.
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.
(wither)
As verbs the difference between wittered and withered
is that wittered is past tense of witter while withered is past tense of wither.As an adjective withered is
shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.wittered
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Verb
(head)witter
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) witter, witer, of (etyl) origin, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Etymology 2
From (etyl) witteren, witeren, of (etyl) origin, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Verb
(en verb)- She got home and started wittering about some religious cult she’d just heard about.