Crossword-Solution: WILTED
We have 13 clues for the answer “WILTED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Became flaccid | 1 answer |
| Drooped, like a thirsty plant | 1 answer |
| Grew weak | 1 answer |
| In visible need of watering | 1 answer |
| Lost turgor | 1 answer |
| Reacted to extreme heat | 1 answer |
| Reacted to high humidity | 1 answer |
| Started to droop | 1 answer |
| Wilting. | 2 answers |
| No longer crisp | 3 answers |
| Drooped | 6 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY OPPRESSIVE HEAT AND HUMIDITY | 11 answers |
| Withered | 34 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WILTED (5)
Was the sacred presence there? He climbed the fence, threaded his stealthy way through the plants, till he stood under that window; he looked up at it long, and with emotion; then he laid him down on the ground under it, disposing himself upon his back, with his hands clasped upon his breast and holding his poor wilted flower.
The mean and low, yet strangely man-like expression of his wilted countenance; the prying and crafty glance, that showed him ready to gripe at every miserable advantage; his enormous tail (too enormous to be decently concealed under his gabardine), and the deviltry of nature which it betokened,—take this monkey just as he was, in short, and you could desire no better image of the Mammon of copper coin, symbolizing the grossest form of the love of money.
The sweat stiffening the hair upon her back and loins, as it dried, gave off a penetrating, ammoniacal odour that mingled with the stale perfume of sachet and wilted flowers.
Their car was filled with pudgy babies lying limp in parental arms; with lunch baskets exuding the sickly scent of bananas; with disheveled vandals whose moist palms grasped bunches of wilted wild flowers.
And I, in return, will bid him be of good cheer, nor take it amiss that I must blanch his locks and wrinkle him up like a wilted apple, since it shall be my endeavor so to beautify his face with intellect and mild benevolence that he shall profit immensely by the change.
Quotes with WILTED (3)
Time is tick, tick, ticking away. How many souls will I capture today? Will they be a challenge or will they be given? Only time will tell as the clock keeps tick, tick, ticking. Your god has arrived with enough hatred for y’all, with enough evil for the big and small, so come one, come all. I will shred your souls and place them in my satchel, call you a settler and make you my peddler. Come one, come all, come stand behind your god. I will lead you into the darkness of Eart…
We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced tha…
Whenever you see flies or insects in a still life — a wilted petal, a black spot on the apple — the painter is giving you a secret message. He’s telling you that living things don’t last — it’s all temporary. Death in life. That’s why they’re called natures mortes. Maybe you don’t see it at first with all the beauty and bloom, the little speck of rot. But if you look closer — there it is.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, WP.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1989–2022).