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wilted

wilted adjective: drooping, typically due to lack of water. Also the simple past and past participle of wilt.

Adjective

wilted (comparative more wilted, superlative most wilted)

  1. Drooping, typically due to lack of water.

Also used as

wilted is also the simple past and past participle of wilt.

Forms of wilted

comparativemore wilted
superlativemost wilted

Origin of wilted

From wilt + -ed.

Questions about wilted

What does wilted mean?
Wilted means drooping, typically due to lack of water.
What part of speech is wilted?
Wilted is an adjective.

Words near wilted in the dictionary

  1. Wilstead
  2. Wilsthorpe
  3. Wilstrop
  4. wilt
  5. wiltable
  6. wilted
  7. wiltedness
  8. wilter
  9. wilters
  10. Wiltgen
  11. Wiltgens

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