Wither

/ˈwɪðɚ/

Synonyms for "wither" (129 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (26)

age air-dry anhydrate attenuate bake blast blight blot brush burncave incheat the undertakercollapse constrict consume contract cure decay decline

Verb(1 words)

atrophied

Noun(6 words)

atrophies atrophy atrophyingback ridgeblight blights

Strong matches (39)

Noun(8 words)

decline degeneratesdie backdiebackdorsal crestdry upfade hollow

deflate dehumidify dehydrate desiccate diminish dodder drain droop drydry updwindle emacerate emaciate evaporate exsiccate fadefade awayfail fire flag

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foldget alongget ongrow oldinsolate kiln languish

Adjective(1 words)

emaciated

Verb(3 words)

emaciates fade languished

Related words (64)

Verb(9 words)

languishes pined shrink shrivelshrivel upshrivels wilted wilts worsen

lose strengthmacerate mummify mummy parch peak pine preshrink rubrun downsanforize scorch sear shake shrink shrivel sink smokesoak upsponge

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sun sun-dry swab thin torrefy totter towelturn grayturn whitewane wastewaste awayweaken weazen welter wilt wipewither awaywizen wrinkle

Noun(12 words)

parch pining sapshoulder regionshrivel shriveling shrivelling stuntthoracic ridgewane weaken wilting

Adjective(3 words)

shrivelled withered wizened

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

16 entries

anatomical termbody partdecline decrease dehydration desiccation deterioration diminish disappeardisease symptomfallgo awaylessenplant conditionvanish weaken

More specific

11 entries

careers withercrops witherdecay dieback diminutiondorsal ridgeparching shrivelingthoracic regionwaning wilting

Collocations

12 entries

at the withersheight at withershorse witherslarge withersplant withersprominent witherswither awaywither under pressurewithered leaveswithering droughtwithering lookwithers height

Inflections

3 entries

withered withering withers

Derivations

4 entries

withered witheredness withering witheringly

Translations

129 translations across 60 languages.

Ancient Greek

1 entries

μαραίνομαι verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Arabic

1 entries

صَعَقَ verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Armenian

1 entries

թառամել verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Aromanian

1 entries

vishtidzãscu verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Belarusian

1 entries

вя́нуць verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Bikol Central

1 entries

luyos verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Bulgarian

2 entries

изсъхвам verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
увяхвам verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Campidanese Sardinian

4 entries

accalamai verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
allaccanai verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
calamai verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
carigai verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Catalan

4 entries

marcir-se verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
musteir-se verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
mustiar-se verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
pansir-se verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Chechen

1 entries

маргӏалдола verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

枯萎 verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
謝 /谢 verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Cornish

1 entries

gwedhra verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Czech

4 entries

ochromit verb ((transitive) to make helpless due to emotion)
usychat verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
uvadat verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
vadnout verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Danish

1 entries

visne verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Dutch

2 entries

verdorren verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
verschrompelen verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Esperanto

2 entries

forvelki verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
velki verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Finnish

3 entries

jäykistää verb ((transitive) to make helpless due to emotion)
kuihtua verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
lakastua verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

French

3 entries

flétrir verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
se dessécher verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
se faner verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Galician

4 entries

alfar verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
esmirrar verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
mirrar verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
murchar verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

German

4 entries

verdorren verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
vertrocknen verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
verwelken verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
welken verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Gothic

1 entries

𐌲𐌰𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍃𐌽𐌰𐌽 verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Greek

1 entries

μαραίνομαι verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Hungarian

4 entries

elfonnyad verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
elhervad verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
elszárad verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
lekonyul verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Ingrian

1 entries

räytyä verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Italian

4 entries

appassire verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
avvizzire verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
essiccare verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
inaridire verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Japanese

1 entries

枯れる verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Korean

1 entries

시들다 verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Latin

2 entries

marceō verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
ārefaciō verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Macedonian

1 entries

венеам verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Malayalam

1 entries

വാടുക verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Middle English

1 entries

welken verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Mongolian

1 entries

хатах verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Māori

1 entries

kautaka verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Ngazidja Comorian

1 entries

unyaya verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries

çilmisîn verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Occitan

3 entries

se marcir verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
se passir verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
se tressecar verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Old English

2 entries

clingan verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
sēarian verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

قورومق verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Persian

2 entries

افسرده کردن verb ((transitive) to make helpless due to emotion)
پژمردن verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Polish

1 entries

więdnąć verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Portuguese

4 entries

decair verb ((transitive) to make helpless due to emotion)
mirrar verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
mirrar-se verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
murchar murchar-se verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Romanian

4 entries

ofili verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
ofili verb ((transitive) to make helpless due to emotion)
veșteji verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
veșteji verb ((transitive) to make helpless due to emotion)

Russian

4 entries

вя́нуть verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
завя́нуть verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
засо́хнуть verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
со́хнуть verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Sanskrit

1 entries

शुष्यति verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Sardinian

4 entries

allaccanàre verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
alleventare verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
allizare verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
carigare verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Sassarese

2 entries

allaccanà verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
appassì verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

sahnuti verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
venuti verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Slovene

2 entries

uveneti verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
veneti verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Spanish

3 entries

ajarse verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
decaer verb ((transitive) to make helpless due to emotion)
marchitarse verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Swahili

1 entries

kukauka verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Swedish

4 entries

förtorka verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
förtvina verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
torka ut verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
tvina verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Tamil

1 entries

வாடு verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Thai

3 entries

เหี่ยว verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
เหี่ยวเฉา verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
เหี่ยวแห้ง verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Tocharian B

1 entries

klaiks- verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Turkish

2 entries

kurumak verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
solmak verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Ugaritic

1 entries

𐎃𐎗𐎁 verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Ukrainian

2 entries

в'я́нути verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
зав'я́нути verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Vietnamese

2 entries

héo verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
úa verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Welsh

4 entries

crebachu verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
crino verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
ffiwgro verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)
gwywo verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Yup'ik

1 entries

nala- verb ((intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up)

Sample sentences

20 total sentences available.

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Oh luck! Like the moon, you steadily change, you always grow and then wither again.

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If you don't water the plants, they will wither.

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A mystery disease caused the grapes to wither on the vine.

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When I have plucked thy rose, I cannot give it vital growth again. It must needs wither.

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