wither

About 0.97 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water.

   The flowers began to wither in the hot sun without enough 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.
4. verb To become helpless due to emotion.
5. verb To make helpless due to emotion.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

6. noun singular of withers (“part of the back of a four-legged animal that is between the shoulder blades”)
7. adverb Against, in opposition to.
8. verb To go against, resist; oppose.

Similar words

shrivel up shrivel shrink fade wilt sear dwindle die bigg wither away

Often followed by

away and in on the up as under at

Word family

George Wither Wither withered withering withers