Recorded since 1691, probably an alteration ofwelk, itself fromMiddle Englishwelken, presumed fromMiddle Dutch (preserved in modern inchoativeverwelken) orMiddle Low Germanwelken(“to wither”), cognate withOld High Germanirwelhen(“to become soft”).
wilt (third-person singular simple presentwilts,present participlewilting,simple past and past participlewilted)
- (intransitive) Todroop or becomelimp andflaccid (as a dying leaf or flower).
- (intransitive) Tofatigue; to losestrength; toflag.
2011 September 27, Alistair Magowan, “Bayern Munich 2 - 0 Man City”, inBBC Sport[1]:Not only wereJupp Heynckes' team pacey in attack but they were relentless in their pursuit of the ball once they had lost it, and as the game wore on they merely increased their dominance as Citywilted in theAllianz Arena.
2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 40:43 from the start, inBattle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?[2], archived fromthe original on19 August 2022:Caught between hails of 5″/38 fire and working Mk 14 torpedoes, on the one hand, and 16-inch batteries backed up by evenmore 5″/38 guns, on the other, the Japanese cruisers rapidly began towilt under the sustained bombardment; firing off any remaining torpedoes they had at any targets that they could find and bring to bear, the survivors wheeled about and began to beat a retreat.
- (transitive) To cause todroop or becomelimp andflaccid (as a flower).
1982 February 6, Mary E. O'Shaughnessy, “Younger And Older Lesbians”, inGay Community News, volume 9, number28, page 4:Peer pressure on both partners, even from within the lesbian community, can help towilt a budding intergenerational romance.
- (transitive) To cause tofatigue; toexhaust.
to droop
- Armenian:թառամել (hy)(tʻaṙamel)
- Azerbaijani:solmaq (az)
- Bulgarian:клюмвам (bg)(kljumvam)
- Catalan:mustiar (ca),pansir (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:枯萎 (zh)(kūwěi),打蔫兒 /打蔫儿(dǎniānr)(colloquial)
- Danish:visne
- Dutch:verwelken (nl)
- Esperanto:velki
- Faroese:følna
- Finnish:lakastua (fi),kuihtua (fi),näivettyä (fi),nuutua (fi)
- French:flétrir (fr),seflétrir (fr),faner (fr),sefaner (fr)
- German:welken (de),verwelken (de)
- Greek:μαραίνομαι (el)(maraínomai)
- Hungarian:hervad (hu),fonnyad (hu)
- Icelandic:fölna
- Ingrian:räytyä
- Italian:appassire (it),avvizzire (it),afflosciarsi (it)
- Kumyk:солмакъ(solmaq)
- Malayalam:വാടുക (ml)(vāṭuka)
- Māori:kautaka
- Nepali:ओइलाउनु(oilāunu)
- Norwegian:visne
- Old Norse:fǫlna
- Persian:پلاسیدن (fa)(palâsidan)
- Polish:więdnąć (pl)
- Portuguese:murchar (pt)
- Russian:увядать (ru)(uvjadatʹ)
- Sami:
- Southern Sami:boelnedh
- Serbo-Croatian:venuti (sh),mlohaviti
- Slovak:vädnúť,zvädnúť,zosychať,usychať
- Spanish:marchitarse (es),ajarse (es)
- Swedish:vissna (sv)
- Turkish:solmak (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish:بایلمق(bayılmak)
- Uyghur:سولماق(solmaq)
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wilt (countable anduncountable,pluralwilts)
- The act ofwilting or the state of beingwilted.
- (phytopathology) Any of variousplantdiseases characterized bywilting.
FromMiddle Englishwilt, fromOld Englishwilt, fromProto-West Germanic*wilt, second person singular preterite-present ofProto-West Germanic*willjan. Cognate withDutchwilt(“wilt”,second-person singular ofwillen),Germanwillt(archaic second person singular indicative ofwollen).
wilt
- (archaic)second-personsingularsimplepresentindicative ofwill
1886 October –1887 January,H[enry] Rider Haggard,She: A History of Adventure, London:Longmans, Green, and Co., published1887,→OCLC:'Oh, my love, my love!' she murmured, 'wilt thou ever know how I have loved thee?' and she kissed him on the forehead, and then went and stood in the pathway of the flame of Life.
- 1952, Bible (Revised Standard Version),Psalms 17:3
- If thou triest my heart, if thou visitest me by night, if thou testest me, thouwilt find no wickedness in me.
wilt
- inflection ofwillen:
- second-personsingularpresentindicative
- (archaic)pluralimperative
wilt
- inflection ofwillen:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personpluralpresentindicative
- pluralimperative
wilt
- second-personsingularpresentindicative ofwillan
