wilt
/wɪlt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Peer pressure on both partners, even from within the lesbian community, can help to wilt a budding intergenerational romance."
- "'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."
Etymology
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: welken, wilt, *wilt, *willjan
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.