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Definition of Wither

Wither

To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up.

To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin/ away, as animal bodies.

To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away.

To cause to fade, and become dry.

To cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture.

To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny.

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Wither Quotations

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
James Joyce

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
B. R. Ambedkar

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
Joseph Wood Krutch

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.
Hugh Laurie

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
Samuel Rutherford

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
Ernestine L. Rose

I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for.
Catherine Crier

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
Alexander Herzen

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
Gene Roddenberry

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.
Alex Lowe

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Wither Translations

wither in Dutch is verflensen, kwijnen, verdorren
wither in Italian is appassire, sfiorire
wither in Spanish is marchitarse

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