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wilt

verbenomverbeattesté dans les dialogues

  • //wɪlt//

To droop or become limp and flaccid (as a dying leaf or flower).

verbe

  1. 1

    To droop or become limp and flaccid (as a dying leaf or flower).

  2. 2

    To fatigue; to lose strength; to flag.

    Not only were Jupp 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 City wilted in the Allianz Arena.

    Caught between hails of 5″/38 fire and working Mk 14 torpedoes, on the one hand, and 16-inch batteries backed up by even more 5″/38 guns, on the other, the Japanese cruisers rapidly began to wilt 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.

  3. 3

    To cause to droop or become limp and flaccid (as a flower).

    Peer pressure on both partners, even from within the lesbian community, can help to wilt a budding intergenerational romance.

  4. 4

    To cause to fatigue; to exhaust.

Étymologie

Recorded since 1691, probably an alteration of welk, itself from Middle English welken, presumed from Middle Dutch (preserved in modern inchoative verwelken) or Middle Low German welken (“to wither”), cognate with Old High German irwelhen (“to become soft”).

nom

  1. 1

    The act of wilting or the state of being wilted.

  2. 2

    Any of various plant diseases characterized by wilting.

verbe

  1. 1

    Aussi une forme de willarchaïquesecond-person singular simple present indicative of will

    '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.

    If thou triest my heart, if thou visitest me by night, if thou testest me, thou wilt find no wickedness in me.

Étymologie

From Middle English wilt, from Old English wilt, from Proto-West Germanic *wilt, second person singular preterite-present of Proto-West Germanic *willjan. Cognate with Dutch wilt (“wilt”, second-person singular of willen), German willt (archaic second person singular indicative of wollen).

Formes

pluriel
wilts
passé
wilted
participe passé
wilted
participe présent
wilting
3ᵉ personne du singulier
wilts
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

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