wilted

• “Stir in wilted greens and remaining half-cup of white wine.”

  The Huffington Post: Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution

• “The Raiders once again wilted as the game progressed, struggling to stop San Diego's high-powered offense and generating only one first down in the first 22 minutes of the half.”

  USATODAY.com

• “Awash in that destroying beam, Gerrard's sword wilted and fell to the ground in a silvery puddle.”

  Mercadian Masques

• “After a morning spent poking bitter melons and learning the Chinese for "wilted," pupil Yuling Wu takes a break to sip tea in Zhou's tiny courtyard.”

  West meets East at the wok, table

• “The birds also eat bugs and weeds, they happily devour food scraps such as wilted lettuce and carrot tops, and their manure can be composted into garden fertilizer.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Lame Duck, Duck!

• “But it was still strange and shocking, and my admiration for him kind of wilted right there.”

  Zidane: The Smuggest Player of the World Cup : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits

• “Once the eggplant has 'wilted', about 10-15 minutes depending on your pan, the stove heat, the wind direction, the lunar cycle and how hungry you are, you can eat it or adapt it.”

  What I cooked last night.

• “But it seems to me you've kind of wilted since we began to talk.”

  Brandon of the Engineers

• “Joe had looked so tired and weary, so "wilted," as they say in Boston, that it had shocked Ronald to see her.”

  An American Politician

• “And then he kind of wilted together, and looked like he wished he hadn't spoken so, and then he says, very gentle:”

  Tom Sawyer, Detective

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