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say it: WITH-urd
withered is an adjective meaning "lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness". It is pronounced /ˈwɪðɚd/ — WITH-urd. It carries 2 recorded senses.
lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
“the old woman's shriveled skin”
“he looked shriveled and ill”
“a shrunken old man”
“a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws”
“he did well despite his withered arm”
“a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for withered come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.