Usually means: Decline in health or vitality.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wither, wither: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wither: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wither: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wither: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wither: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wither, wither: Wordnik
  7. wither: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wither, wither-: Wiktionary
  9. wither: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wither: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wither: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wither: Dictionary.com
  13. wither: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wither: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Wither (DeStefano novel), Wither (Dream Theater song), Wither (EP), Wither (Passarella novel), Wither (comics), Wither (film), Wither: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wither: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wither: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wither: Rhymezone
  19. wither: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wither: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wither: Free Dictionary
  22. wither: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. wither: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. wither: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wither: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. wither: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wither: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wither: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to shrivel or dry up.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To lose vigour or power; to languish; to pass away.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become helpless due to emotion.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make helpless due to emotion.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete or chiefly in compounds) Against, in opposition to.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To go against, resist; oppose.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
fade, shrivel, shrivel up, shrink, wither away, forwither, cling, dry up, wither on the vine, sear, more...

Opposite:
flourish, thrive, bloom, prosper

Types:
wilt, shrivel, dry up, decay, fade, droop, blight, atrophy, more...

Phrases:
wither away, george wither, wither wrung, wither on the vine, Wither Blister Burn & Peel, more...

Adjectives:
right, bigg, old, hazel, high, honest, bitter, poor, lovely, green, last


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Similar:
fade, shrivel, shrivel up, shrink, wither away, forwither, cling, dry up, wither on the vine, sear, more...

Opposite:
flourish, thrive, bloom, prosper

Types:
wilt, shrivel, dry up, decay, fade, droop, blight, atrophy, more...

Phrases:
wither away, george wither, wither wrung, wither on the vine, Wither Blister Burn & Peel, cause to wither, begin to wither, wither up, opposite of wither, more...

Adjectives:
right, bigg, old, hazel, high, honest, bitter, poor, lovely, green, last



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