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
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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. John Steinbeck:

   The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.

2. 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.

3. William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2:

   Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety.

4. Marcel Proust, Les Plaisirs et les Jours (1896):

   Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

5. Doris Meissner:

   The refugee resettlement agency infrastructure in United States is absolutely starving for resources and for skilled staff, because it was allowed to wither on the vine during the last four years.