witheringly

1. 1.

   in a withering manner

   “guns fired witheringly at the railroad cars”

Questions about witheringly

What does witheringly mean?

witheringly means "in a withering manner".

How many syllables are in witheringly?

witheringly has 4 syllables: wi-the-rin-gly. The stress falls on "the".

Is witheringly a common word?

witheringly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.