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

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  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

(Note: See withered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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:  To go against, resist; oppose.
noun:  A surname.

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