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

intransitive verb. To lose force or vitality; become diminished; wane.

intransitive verb. To cause to shrivel or fade.

intransitive verb. To cause to lose force or vitality; diminish or destroy.

intransitive verb. To render speechless or incapable of action; stun.

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

To go against; resist: oppose.

See wither, adverb

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.

transitive verb. To cause to fade, and become dry.

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

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

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

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

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

adverb. Against, in opposition to.

verb. To go against, resist; oppose.

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

verb. To become helpless due to emotion

verb. To cause to shrivel or dry up

verb. To make helpless due to emotion

verb. wither, as with a loss of moisture

verb. 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  

decline  

disappear  go away  vanish  

dither  hither  slither  smither  whither  

bare  bony  brittle  char  fleshy  

Sanforize  age  air-dry  anhydrate  attenuate  

withered  withering  withers