Definition of wither

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Wither (v. t.) To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny..

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Dry :: Dry (v. i.) To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality.
Withering :: Withering (a.) Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade.
Welk :: Welk (v. i.) To wither; to fade; also, to decay; to decline; to wane..
Immortelle :: Immortelle (n.) A plant with a conspicuous, dry, unwithering involucre, as the species of Antennaria, Helichrysum, Gomphrena, etc. See Everlasting..
Wilt :: Wilt (v. t.) To cause to begin to wither; to make flaccid, as a green plant..
Blight :: Blight (n.) The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc..
Wilt :: Wilt (v. i.) To begin to wither; to lose freshness and become flaccid, as a plant when exposed when exposed to drought, or to great heat in a dry day, or when separated from its root; to droop;. to wither..
Unparched :: Unparched (a.) Dried up; withered by heat.
Wizened :: Wizened (a.) Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened old man..
Mummified :: Mummified (a.) Converted into a mummy or a mummylike substance; having the appearance of a mummy; withered.
Virent :: Virent (a.) Green; not withered.
Withering :: Withering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Withe.
Wizen :: Wizen (a.) Wizened; thin; weazen; withered.
Wither :: Wither (n.) To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin/ away, as animal bodies..
Benty :: Benty (a.) A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields..
Withers :: Withers (prep.) The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse..
Wizen-faced :: Wizen-faced (a.) Having a shriveled, thin, withered face..
Winder :: Winder (v. i.) To wither; to fail.
Apple-john :: Apple-john (n.) A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple.
Withernam :: Withernam (n.) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return..
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