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• The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and their fruit withered.From the entry disease
• The exposed workers had some kind of disease that left their skin splotchy and their faces withered.From the entry disease
• Sam has beaten the Ender Dragon twice, killed the wither thrice, obtained netherite armor and built an obsidian fort in Minecraft.From the entry minecraft
• The frosty pumpkin is the sign of the end of the growing season, soon the greenery will wither and harvest end for the year.From the entry frosty
• The fingers had withered into puckered twigs; her little nail had fallen off entirely.2019 September 10, Tamsyn Muir, chapter 20, in Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb; 1), New York, N.Y.: Tor.com, published 2020, →ISBN, act 3. From the entry little nail
• Its velvet petals, red as heart's blood, begin to wither, frostburned.2013, Sarah Ash, Songspinners. From the entry frostburned
• In our "wither the economy" discussion, Zulauf, though gloomy as usual, once again was outgloomed.2012, Peter Lynch, Beating the Street, page 43. From the entry outgloom
• In the Chesapeake Bay area, some call the gills “dead men's fingers” for their withered, pale appearance.2003, Michael Gartland, “Drought Forces Awendaw, S.C., Crab Festival to Import from Louisiana”, in Knight Ridder Tribune Business News…. From the entry dead men's fingers
• Seeds that don’t surrender their “seedness” only wither up and blow away.1988, Peter Hayes, chapter 9, in The Supreme Adventure: The Experience of Siddha Yoga, New York: Dell, page 163. From the entry seedness
• Will stickermania mature into an enduring hobby or wither on the vine?1984, Boys' Life, volume 74, number 10, page 46. From the entry stickermania
• Though commercial operations have mostly withered, mangoes still thrive in backyards and in the small specialty market, Dr.2023 July 8, Patricia Mazzei, “The Mango Is King of the Miami Summer”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry mangophile
• After harvesting the first flush, clean up all the withered pinheads and debris on the surface of the block.2010, Craig Wallin, Golden Harvest, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry first flush
• These two organizations soon withered on the vine.2006, Tom Devine, The Scottish Nation: A Modern History. From the entry wither on the vine
• My bold, Crocodile Hunter “Absolutely” withered into “mkay” with the end of the word lilted up like a desperate question.2004, Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com…. From the entry m'kay
• Withered addicts drooped into chronic heroin nods.1988 August 20, Wickie Stamps, “Voluptuous Nudes and Withered Addicts”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 7. From the entry nod
• He is usually reading with a cutting comment that can wither the insecure and devastate the less combative.1984, Tim LaHaye, “Evaluating Your Strengths and Weaknesses”, in Your Temperament: Discover its Potential, Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House…. From the entry choleric
• This tunicate withered hag the Señora had my financial number.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 404. From the entry tunicate
• In the name there was a euphony which beckoned to the imagination, yet this was the bitter, withered reality.1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth, Chapter 8. From the entry euphony
• Stephen's heart had withered up like a flower of the desert that feels the simoom coming from afar.1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 101. From the entry simoom
• When he lowered the skiff they lay gaping on the boards under a sun that withered them visibly, Suttree gripped his forepockets, searching.2010, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree. From the entry forepocket
• The old woman’s cabbage, in the ash-hole, withered away entirely; but the old man’s grew and grew, grew up to the floor.2009 [1887], William Ralston Shedden Ralston, “The Fox Physician”, in Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-Lore…. From the entry ash-hole
• Meanwhile support for the ‘puppet’ antipope Nicholas V, deprived of his protector and by now excommunicated along with his emperor, rapidly withered away.2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 59. From the entry antipope
• Potatoes rotted away and grains withered.2005, Antonius Holtmann, A Lost American Dream, page 16. From the entry misharvest
• Its wings long ago gave up the idea of lifting such a plumpy off the ground, and withered away into decorative little stumps.1990, Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine, Last Chance To See. From the entry plumpy
• Then there was the sound of transport, too heavy a sound for a private car, and headlights showed up the withered pot-plants in Crabbe's porch.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 494. From the entry pot plant
• Hair-brushes were arranged carefully on wither side of a clean comb, and a pair of recently pressed trousers lay over a chair-back.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 176. From the entry chairback
• It was hard to imagine that the broken thing had once been new; that those withered, waxen cheeks had been fresh and tinted.1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 28, in Gormenghast, Penguin, published 1969, page 185. From the entry waxen
• The seasons are come to a stagnant stop, the trees blench and wither, the wagons role in the mica ruts with slithering harplike thuds.1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961, page 284. From the entry blench
• He is grey, flat-footed and withered, with long, brittle nails that set your nerves on edge while he scrapes up your two sous.1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other…. From the entry sou
• According to Engels, the bourgeois state does not “wither away”, but is “abolished” by the proletariat in the course of the revolution.1918, V. I. Lenin, “Class Society and the State”, in The State and Revolution, The “Withering Away” of the State, and Violent Revolution…. From the entry semi-state
• The vegetation was withered to pallid rags: even the tiniest weedling in the rock crevices had been poisoned by the devastating blast.1907, Stewart Edward White, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Mystery. From the entry weedling
• Jefferson bent low over the withered, beringed hand of the old Duchess, and he waited his turn to be presented to the ladies.1903, Carter Goodloe, Calvert of Strathore. From the entry beringed
• The grazing is all parched and withered up, and it is wonderful how cattle get through the winter here as they do.1901 June 7, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 7, page 196. From the entry grazing
• The face of the man was withered and blackened as by the torrefaction of a thousand flames; his beard was grey as ashes; and his eyes were expiring embers.2013, Clark Ashton Smith, Told in the Desert. From the entry torrefaction
• Major initiatives now appear unlikely unless the financial crisis reintensifies, as the bank assesses whether the much-discussed “green shoots” in recent data releases will wither or take root.2009 July 3, Matthew Saltmarsh, “Europe’s Central Bank Holds Rate Steady”, in New York Times. From the entry reintensify
• This ability to wither, it seemed to her, had begun to extend itself into her work, for the Majorov research had come to what, seemingly, was a dead end.1986, Stuart Woods, Deep Lie, →ISBN. From the entry black thumb
• Looking out at the gloomy silent withered forests, Bond thought that nothing could be living in them except bats and scorpions, horned toads and black widow spiders.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 123. From the entry black widow

Meaning of wither

1. verb To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water.
2. verb To cause to shrivel or dry up.
3. verb To lose vigour or power; to languish; to waste away; to pass away.

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Questions about wither in a sentence

How do you use wither in a sentence?

Wither is used as a verb and adverb. For example: “The flowers began to wither in the hot sun without enough water.”

What is a short sentence with wither?

“Potatoes rotted away and grains withered.”

What does wither mean?

Wither means to shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water.