WORD: WILT
MEANING:
1. To become limp or flaccid; droop: plants wilting in the heat.
2. To feel or exhibit the effects of fatigue or exhaustion; weaken markedly: "His brain wilted from hitherto unprecedented weariness" (Vladimir Nabokov).
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. There was a time when she could just wilt a little, and everyone jumped up to defend her virtue, modesty or some such attribute.
2. The flowers in the pots are beginning to wilt.
PRONOUNCE:
wilt - विल्ट
LINK: WILT
MEANING:
1. To become limp or flaccid; droop: plants wilting in the heat.
2. To feel or exhibit the effects of fatigue or exhaustion; weaken markedly: "His brain wilted from hitherto unprecedented weariness" (Vladimir Nabokov).
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. There was a time when she could just wilt a little, and everyone jumped up to defend her virtue, modesty or some such attribute.
2. The flowers in the pots are beginning to wilt.
PRONOUNCE:
wilt - विल्ट
LINK: WILT
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