wilted
past simple and past participle ofwilt
| 单词 | wilted |
| 释义 | wilted past simple and past participle ofwilt wilt verb[I] uk/wɪlt/us/wɪlt/(of aplant) tobecomeweakandbegintobendtowards theground, or (of aperson) tobecomeweaker,tired, or lessconfident: Cutflowerswillsoonwilt withoutwater. After only an hour'shikingthey werebeginningto wilt in theheat. Becoming and making less strong
Examplesofwiltedwilted In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Dead seedlings and t hose withwiltedleaves were also discarded. From theCambridge English Corpus The number ofwiltedand dead seedlings per replicate was corrected to take into account variation between the three experiments. From theCambridge English Corpus After 27 days,wiltedand dead seedlings were counted in each replicate. From theCambridge English Corpus At this stage, water-stressed plants were visiblywiltedand smaller (leaf length and dry weight) than the well-watered control plants. From theCambridge English Corpus In most cases, therefore, the non-mycorrhizal plants had visiblywiltedafter eight days without watering. From theCambridge English Corpus There may have beenwiltedor dead plants there, but not phylloxera. From theCambridge English Corpus Male and female flowers opened a t dawn and stayed open for 2-3 d, before theywiltedand dropped off t he tree. From theCambridge English Corpus Surveying involved searching for seedlings withwiltedleaves, or the brown stems of dead seedlings that had lost their leaves. From theCambridge English Corpus Buds, open andwiltedflowers, fruits, aborted flowers and fruits per branch were counted. From theCambridge English Corpus Dependent variable is the corrected number ofwilted+ dead seedlings per replicate. From theCambridge English Corpus No forest flowers were nectar-robbed, whereas 3.7% of 163 buds, 83.3% of 24 open flowers and 95.9% of 49wiltedflowers were robbed at the open-land site. From theCambridge English Corpus Seedlings were classified as healthy (no sign of wilting), partiallywilted(some leaveswiltedand stem alive), totally wilted (all leaves wilted and stem alive), or dead. From theCambridge English Corpus I do not think that he looked particularly like awiltedflower. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 He said that individual enterprise was a very tender thing, very easilywilted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Early planted crops in some areaswiltedand had to be replanted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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