Usually means: To what place or state?
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. whither: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whither: Merriam-Webster
  3. whither: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whither: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. whither: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Whither, whither: Wordnik
  7. whither: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. whither: Wiktionary
  9. whither: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. whither: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. whither: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. whither: Dictionary.com
  13. whither: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Whither: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Whither: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. whither: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. whither: Rhymezone
  18. Whither: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. whither: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. whither: FreeDictionary.org
  21. whither: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. whither: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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(Note: See whithering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  Interrogative senses.
adverb:  To what place; where.
adverb:  (figurative, also humorous) To what (future) cause, condition or state, reason, etc.; where, where next; also (obsolete) to what extent; how far.
adverb:  Relative senses.
adverb:  To which place; also (after a noun denoting a place) to which.
adverb:  To the place in or to which.
adverb:  (generally) In or to any place to which; to whatever place; wherever.
noun:  (formal, archaic except literary or poetic) A place to which someone or something goes; also, a condition to which someone or something moves.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To cause (someone) to hurry; to hasten, to hurry.
verb:  To throw (something) forcefully; to hurl; also, to beat, to thrash.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To shake (vigorously); to tremble.
verb:  To move quickly, to rush, to whiz; also, to make a rushing sound; to whizz.
verb:  Of the wind: to blow loudly and vigorously; to bluster; also, of an animal, etc.: to make a loud noise; to bellow, to roar.
noun:  A state of rushed action; a haste, a hurry; also, a state of anger or excitement.
noun:  A forceful blow or hit.
noun:  An act of shaking (vigorously); a shiver, a tremble; also, a slight bout of discomfort or illness.
noun:  The sound of something moving quickly; a rush, a whiz.
noun:  A gust of wind; a bluster.

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