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Add the spinach a few handfuls at a time, adding more as the spinach in the pan begins to wilt.

If you just have it out at a farmer’s market, it’s going to wilt.

Ly braises radishes in a buttery broth, then folds in their greens until wilted.

Cook until they wilt and the liquid reduces slightly, 2 to 3 minutes.

Add the spinach and salt, and cook until the spinach wilts, releases its liquid and dries out, about 5 minutes.

Wilt Chamberlain once pointed out that “nobody loves Goliath,” as an excuse for his enduring unpopularity.

They have to have the courage not to wilt or get the vapors whenever a right-winger invokes the evil gummint or the hated Kenyan.

But the two young girls, Thornton and Wilt, never seemed to lose energy.

At the foot of the adjacent 4-foot high gravestones are floral arrangements that are just starting to wilt.

And I do agree with him on Wilt Chamberlain, whom we will discuss at length in the future.

The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee.

And how wilt thou stand against the face of the judge of one place, of the least of my master's servants?

I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.

For I know that transgressing thou wilt transgress, and I have called thee a transgressor from the womb.

Wilt thou yet say before them that slay thee: I am God; whereas thou art a man, and not God, in the hand of them that slay thee?

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On this page you'll find 73 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wilt, such as: cave in, diminish, droop, dwindle, ebb, and fade.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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