wilt
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
Etymology: Recorded since 1691, probably an alteration of welk, itself from Middle English welken, presumed from Middle Dutch (preserved in modern inchoative verwelken) or Middle Low German welken (“to wither”), cognate with Old High German irwelhen (“to become soft”).
Inflected forms:
form: wilts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wilting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wilted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wilted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wilts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To droop or become limp and flaccid (as a dying leaf or flower).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fatigue; to lose strength; to flag.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Not only were Jupp Heynckes' team pacey in attack but they were relentless in their pursuit of the ball once they had lost it, and as the game wore on they merely increased their dominance as City wilted in the Allianz Arena.
Caught between hails of 5″/38 fire and working Mk 14 torpedoes, on the one hand, and 16-inch batteries backed up by even more 5″/38 guns, on the other, the Japanese cruisers rapidly began to wilt under the sustained bombardment; firing off any remaining torpedoes they had at any targets that they could find and bring to bear, the survivors wheeled about and began to beat a retreat.
gloss: To cause to droop or become limp and flaccid (as a flower).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Peer pressure on both partners, even from within the lesbian community, can help to wilt a budding intergenerational romance.
gloss: To cause to fatigue; to exhaust.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: The act of wilting or the state of being wilted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various plant diseases characterized by wilting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: koa wilt
oak wilt
pineapple wilt
Stewart's wilt
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: թառամել
roman: tʻaṙamel
lang: Azerbaijani
word: solmaq
lang: Bulgarian
word: клюмвам
roman: kljumvam
lang: Catalan
word: mustiar
lang: Catalan
word: pansir
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 枯萎
roman: kūwěi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 打蔫兒 /打蔫儿
roman: dǎniānr
lang: Danish
word: visne
lang: Dutch
word: verwelken
lang: Esperanto
word: velki
lang: Faroese
word: følna
lang: Finnish
word: lakastua
lang: Finnish
word: kuihtua
lang: Finnish
word: näivettyä
lang: Finnish
word: nuutua
lang: French
word: flétrir
lang: French
word: se flétrir
lang: French
word: faner
lang: French
word: se faner
lang: German
word: welken
lang: German
word: verwelken
lang: Greek
word: μαραίνομαι
roman: maraínomai
lang: Hungarian
word: hervad
lang: Hungarian
word: fonnyad
lang: Icelandic
word: fölna
lang: Ingrian
word: räytyä
lang: Italian
word: appassire
lang: Italian
word: avvizzire
lang: Italian
word: afflosciarsi
lang: Kumyk
word: солмакъ
roman: solmaq
lang: Malayalam
word: വാടുക
roman: vāṭuka
lang: Māori
word: kautaka
lang: Nepali
word: ओइलाउनु
roman: oilāunu
lang: Norwegian
word: visne
lang: Old Norse
word: fǫlna
lang: Persian
word: پلاسیدن
roman: palâsidan
lang: Polish
word: więdnąć
lang: Portuguese
word: murchar
lang: Russian
word: увядать
roman: uvjadatʹ
lang: Southern Sami
word: boelnedh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: venuti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mlohaviti
lang: Slovak
word: vädnúť
lang: Slovak
word: zvädnúť
lang: Slovak
word: zosychať
lang: Slovak
word: usychať
lang: Spanish
word: marchitarse
lang: Spanish
word: ajarse
lang: Swedish
word: vissna
lang: Turkish
word: solmak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بایلمق
roman: bayılmak
lang: Uyghur
word: سولماق
roman: solmaq