Synonyms for wither
ˈwɪð ərwith·er

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1. wither

   Die, to go out of life, become destitute of vital power and action, is figuratively applied to anything which has the appearance of life.

   Where the dying night-lamp flickers.

   Tennyson Locksley Hall st. 40.

   An echo, a strain of music, a tempest, a topic, an issue, dies. Expire (literally, to breathe out) is a softer word for die; it is used figuratively of things that cease to exist by reaching a natural limit; as, a lease expires; the time has expired. To perish (literally, in Latin, to go through, as in English we say, "the fire goes out") is oftenest used of death by privation or exposure; as, "I perish with hunger," Luke xv, 17; sometimes, of death by violence. Knowledge and fame, art and empires, may be said to perish; the word denotes utter destruction and decay.

   Synonyms:
   cease, decease, decline, depart, die, expire, fade, perish

   Antonyms:
   be born, be immortal, begin, come into being, come to life, exist, flourish, grow, live, rise again, rise from the dead, survive

   Preposition:
   To die of fever; by violence; rarely, with the sword, famine, etc. (Ezek. vii, 15); to die for one's country; to die at sea; in one's bed; in agony; die to the world.

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1. wither

   Synonyms:
   shrivel, dry, collapse, shrink, blast, blight

   Antonyms:
   swell, grow, freshen, luxuriate, wanton, refresh, expand, develop

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1. shrivel, shrivel up, shrink, witherverb

   wither, as with a loss of moisture

   "The fruit dried and shriveled"

   Synonyms:
   shrink, wince, shrivel, fade, flinch, recoil, shrivel up, squinch, quail, contract, reduce, funk, cringe

2. fade, witherverb

   lose freshness, vigor, or vitality

   "Her bloom was fading"

   Synonyms:
   melt, languish, evanesce, shrivel, fade, pass off, shrivel up, fleet, shrink, blow over, pass

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1. • Decrease
   • Disappear

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1. witherverb

   Synonyms:
   shrivel, dry, dry up, lose freshness

2. witherverb

   Synonyms:
   waste, decay, droop, languish, pine away, waste away

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1. List of paraphrases for "wither":

   wilt

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1. Pythagoras:

   It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

2. Lynn Greenky:

   Only in exceptional circumstances will content-based restrictions be constitutionally permissible under the First Amendment, certainly, the Montana government has a compelling state interest in protecting the health, welfare, and privacy of its citizens, but the statute is so vague that it is virtually unenforceable. A vague statute is, by definition, not narrowly tailored, and as such it will wither under First Amendment scrutiny.

3. Alexander Herzen:

   We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

4. Michael Avenatti:

   I can't allow it to eat me up, because otherwise, you know, I might as well just do, I guess, the crawl into a fetal position and wither away.

5. William Shakespeare:

   Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.