Withers synonyms and antonyms
wĭth'ərz
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(Sports) To swerve from a straight course, especially in the direction of a slice.
Shrink is defined as to become less, reduce or make smaller.
To become or make shrunken and wrinkled, often by drying:
Wilt means to become limp.
To make weak, feeble, or emaciated; wear away the strength, vigor, or life of
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To decrease gradually in size, number, strength, or intensity:
(Figuratively) To mark permanently, as if by burning.
To make unable to move or act:
(Intransitive) To live in miserable or disheartening conditions. [from 15th c.]
To bend or sag gradually:
To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
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To weaken or disintegrate; decay:
To lose water; become dry
(Intransitive, physics, of a satellite's orbit) To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbitted body).
Any of numerous plant diseases that cause leaves, stems, fruits, and tissues to wither and die. Rust, mildew, and smut are blights.
To waste away; wither or deteriorate; undergo atrophy.
Age means to experience the passage of time or show signs of growing older.
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To cause (someone) to be unable to think clearly or be sensitive to the surroundings; daze:
To cause to lose vitality or become impervious to change; deaden:
To cause to become numb.
To make numb, especially by cold.
To waste (away) through grief, pain, longing, etc.
To shrivel or dry up
grows (antonym)
To come to be by a gradual process or by degrees; become:
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revives (antonym)
To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
affects (related)
The definition of affect means to produce a change in something.
dry (related)
To remove moisture from.
kilminster (related)
Harrop (related)
swaine (related)
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