Meaning of wilt in English
(Definition of wilt from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of wilt from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of wilt
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No irrigation was applied to the second group for five days at which point the leaves began to wilt around midday.
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And then there are all those serious operas that contain women (like sorceresses) who 'strive rather than wilt' (63).
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The correlations were robust to different timings of the assessments, and to differences in the categorization of wilting (data not shown).
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The minute it gets a little low on water, it wilts, so it's a reminder it's time to water everything again.
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With the flower that wilts and returns no more.
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Other traits measured occasionally are lodging resistance, reaction to diseases, cold damage and wilting due to drought stress.
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The seed obtained from cotton harvested from wilt-affected villages was sent to the mill to be crushed for the production of vegetable oil.
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It has been assumed that the rapid spread of fusarium wilt in the 1950s and 1960s occurred through the distribution of infected planting seed.
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Therefore, knowledge of the dispersal of the pine sawyer is essential when developing an intensive protection programme against pine wilt disease.
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Hence, we expected to find a rather complex relationship between wilting and leaf water potentials.
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Therefore, feeding cattle on seed husks from a crop infected with fusarium wilt is a potential means of spreading the disease.
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At this stage, water-stressed plants were visibly wilted and smaller (leaf length and dry weight) than the well-watered control plants.
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Sawyers were collected from nine sites near the frontier of the pine wilt disease damage area.
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Movement of the sawyer population can be inferred by tracing the dispersal of pine wilt disease.
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solmak, boynunu bükmek, canlılığını yitirmek…
se dessécher, (se) faner…
しぼむ…
verwelken…
zvadnout…
visne…
melayu…
เฉา, เหี่ยว…
rủ xuống…
więdnąć…
sloka…
layu…
verwelken…
visne, tørke inn…
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