3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wither \With"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Withered}; p. pr & vb
n. {Withering}.] [OE. wideren probably the same word as
wederen to weather (see {Weather}, v. & n.); or cf G.
verwittern to decay, to be weather-beaten, Lith. vysti to
wither.]
1. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become
sapless; to dry or shrivel up
Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off
the fruit thereof, that it wither? --Ezek. xvii.
9.
2. To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin? away
as animal bodies.
This is man, old wrinkled, faded, withered. --Shak.
There was a man which had his hand withered. --Matt.
xii. 10.
Now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave.
--Dryden.
3. To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away ``Names
that must not wither.'' --Byron.
States thrive or wither as moons wax and wane.
--Cowper.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Withering \With"er*ing\, a.
Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade. --
{With"er*ing*ly}, adv
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
withering
adj 1: wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction;
"possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating
hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire" [syn: {annihilative},
{annihilating}, {devastating}]
2: making light of "afire with annihilating invective"; "a
devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments
inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert [syn: {annihilating},
{devastating}]
n : any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of
use) [syn: {atrophy}]
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