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ˈwɪð ərwith·er
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
wither
Die, to go out of life, become destitute of vital power and action, is figuratively applied to anything which has the appearance of life.
Where the dying night-lamp flickers.
Tennyson Locksley Hall st. 40.An echo, a strain of music, a tempest, a topic, an issue, dies. Expire (literally, to breathe out) is a softer word for die; it is used figuratively of things that cease to exist by reaching a natural limit; as, a lease expires; the time has expired. To perish (literally, in Latin, to go through, as in English we say, "the fire goes out") is oftenest used of death by privation or exposure; as, "I perish with hunger," Luke xv, 17; sometimes, of death by violence. Knowledge and fame, art and empires, may be said to perish; the word denotes utter destruction and decay.
Synonyms:
cease, decease, decline, depart, die, expire, fade, perishAntonyms:
be born, be immortal, begin, come into being, come to life, exist, flourish, grow, live, rise again, rise from the dead, survivePreposition:
To die of fever; by violence; rarely, with the sword, famine, etc. (Ezek. vii, 15); to die for one's country; to die at sea; in one's bed; in agony; die to the world.
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Princeton's WordNet
shrivel, shrivel up, shrink, witherverb
wither, as with a loss of moisture
"The fruit dried and shriveled"
Synonyms:
shrink, wince, shrivel, fade, flinch, recoil, shrivel up, squinch, quail, contract, reduce, funk, cringefade, witherverb
lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
"Her bloom was fading"
Synonyms:
melt, languish, evanesce, shrivel, fade, pass off, shrivel up, fleet, shrink, blow over, pass
Dictionary of English Synonymes
witherverb
Synonyms:
shrivel, dry, dry up, lose freshnesswitherverb
Synonyms:
waste, decay, droop, languish, pine away, waste away
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #1204 | contract | |
| #1493 | pass | |
| #1763 | die | |
| #2036 | reduce | |
| #2507 | dry | |
| #5615 | decline | |
| #6013 | fleet | |
| #6477 | blast | |
| #7052 | collapse | |
| #8260 | funk | |
| #10105 | depart | |
| #11444 | cease | |
| #12336 | fade | |
| #12853 | expire | |
| #13161 | shrink | |
| #13436 | melt | |
| #22782 | quail | |
| #22905 | wilt | |
| #27794 | blight | |
| #27826 | perish | |
| #31728 | recoil | |
| #31924 | wince | |
| #43010 | cringe | |
| #49828 | wither | |
| #76457 | flinch | |
| #85205 | languish | |
| #92888 | decease | |
| #137114 | shrivel |
How to use wither in a sentence?
I can't allow it to eat me up, because otherwise, you know, I might as well just do, I guess, the crawl into a fetal position and wither away.
Desire makes everything blossom possession makes everything wither and fade.
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed—else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
I think we’ll see some healthy consolidation take place, some may wither on the vine, but technology has improved to make it profitable to extract at a lower price point than last year. As a result, we’ll probably see some opportunistic buying.
They should, but their September meeting language must be so careful, that 'one and done' represents an increasing possibility - at least for the next six months, the Fed is beginning to recognize that 6 years of zero bound interest rates have negative influences on the real economy - it destroys historical business models essential to capitalism such as pension funds, insurance companies, and the willingness to save money itself. If savings wither then so too does its Siamese Twin - investment - and with it, long-term productivity, the decline of which we have seen not just in the U.S. but worldwide.
Translations for wither
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- صعقArabic
- pansir, musteir, marcirCatalan, Valencian
- sesypat se, vadnout, vyschnout, usychat, ochromit, zhroutit se, scvrknout se, uvadatCzech
- visneDanish
- vertrocknen, welken, verwelken, verdorrenGerman
- μαραίνομαι, μαραίνω, παθαίνω μαρασμόGreek
- velkiEsperanto
- marchitar, decaerSpanish
- kuihduttaa, jäykistyä, jähmettyä, lakastua, lakastuttaa, kuihtuaFinnish
- faner, flétrirFrench
- murchar, muchar, rechumir, mirrarGalician
- elhervad, elszárad, elhervaszt, kiszárít, elfonnyad, elszárítHungarian
- թառամելArmenian
- essiccare, appassire, avvizzire, inaridire, inaridirsi, raggrinzireItalian
- 枯れるJapanese
- 시들다Korean
- çilmisandin, çilmisînKurdish
- венеамMacedonian
- verschrompelenDutch
- murchar, mirrarPortuguese
- ofili, veștejiRomanian
- завя́нуть, со́хнуть, засо́хнуть, вя́нуть, увяда́ть, увя́нутьRussian
- sahnuti, venutiSerbo-Croatian
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