Withering vs Rude - What's the difference?
withering | rude |
Tending to destroy, devastate, overwhelm or cause complete destruction.
Diminishing rapidly.
Tending to make someone feel small; scornful in a mortifying way.
The act of something that withers.
* 1839 , William Jenkyn, ?James Sherman, An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude (page 274)
bad-mannered
Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
tough, robust.
undeveloped, unskilled, basic.
* 2 Corinthians 11:6 (KVJ)
* (rfdate), Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops
* 1767 , Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society
hearty, vigorous; (found particularly in the phrase rude health).
As an adjective withering
is tending to destroy, devastate, overwhelm or cause complete destruction.As a verb withering
is .As a noun withering
is the act of something that withers.As a proper noun rude is
settlement in croatia, near zagreb.withering
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The D-Day troops came under withering fire .
- The playboy seemed oblivious to his withering fortune as he continued in his decadent lifestyle .
- Jane's mother in law gave her a withering look .
- He made withering remarks about his adversary .
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Spiritual witherings and decayings are opposite to the word of God.
rude
English
(mismatch between senses and translations)Adjective
(er)- The girl was so rude to her boyfriend by screaming at him for no reason.
- But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge
- When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
- Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
- And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
- Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
- It might be apprehended, that among rude nations, where the means of subsistence are procured with so much difficulty, the mind could never raise itself above the consideration of this subject