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verb-intransitive. To dry up or shrivel from or as if from loss of moisture.

verb-intransitive. To lose freshness; droop.

v. To cause to shrivel or fade.

v. To render speechless or incapable of action; stun: The teacher withered the noisy student with a glance.

ad. Against, in opposition to.

v. To go against, resist; oppose.

v. To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water

v. To become helpless due to emotion

v. To cause to shrivel or dry up

v. To make helpless due to emotion

verb-intransitive. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up.

verb-intransitive. To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin� away, as animal bodies.

verb-intransitive. To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away.

v. To cause to fade, and become dry.

v. To cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture.

v. To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight.

Against; in opposition (to): chiefly in composition, as a prefix wither-, against.

To go against; resist: oppose.

To cause to become dry and fade; make sapless and shrunken.

To cause to shrink, wrinkle, and decay for want of animal moisture; cause to lose bloom; shrivel; cause to have a wrinkled skin or shrunken muscles: as, time will wither the fairest face.

To blight, injure, or destroy, as by some malign or baleful influence; affect fatally by malevolence; cause to perish or languish generally: as, to wither a person by a look or glance; reputations withered by scandal.

To lose the sap or juice; dry and shrivel up; lose freshness and bloom; fade.

To become dry and wrinkled, as from the loss or lack of animal moisture; lose pristine freshness, bloom, softness, smoothness, vigor, or the like, as from age or disease; decay.

To decay generally; decline; languish; pass away.

See wither, adverb

v. wither, as with a loss of moisture

v. lose freshness, vigor, or vitality

"The pink and white impatiens that always seemed to wither from the DC heat looked alive and stood at attention as if they knew they had a special guest."

swell   

withered    withering    withers   

go away    disappear    vanish   

decline   

fade    waste    languish    blight    wilt    shrivel    wizen    sear   

dither    hither    slither    smither    whither    zither   

gnarled    bony    wrinkle    frail    bare    thin    spin-dry    lifeless    hairy    char