Word Meanings - WITHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Weather, v. & n.); or cf. G. verwittern to decay, to be weather- 1. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up. Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither Ezek.

Additional info about word: WITHER

Weather, v. & n.); or cf. G. verwittern to decay, to be weather- 1. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up. Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither Ezek. xvii. 9. 2. To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin This is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered. Shak. There was a man which had his hand withered. Matt. xii. 10. Now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave. Dryden. 3. To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away. "Names that must not wither." Byron. States thrive or wither as moons wax and wane. Cowper.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WITHER)

• Blast Blight
• shrivel
• destroy
• wither
• Consume
• Use
• appropriate
• burn
• oat up
• devour
• spend
• squander
• assimilate
• occupy
• absorb
• employ
• utilize
• waste
• spoil
• ravage
• expend
• pine
• decay
• Decay Decline
• wane
• sink
• dwindle
• rot
• perish
• ebb
• decrease
• Die
• Expire
• depart
• decline
• decease
• disappear
• languish
• fade
• cease
• Languish
• Pine
• droop
• faint
• sigh

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WITHER)

• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge
• Increase
• amplify
• augment
• extend
• Spare
• conserve
• preserve
• indemnify

Related words: (words related to WITHER)

• DISAPPEARING
  p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear. Disappearing carriage , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• SPENDER
  One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• PERISHMENT
  The act of perishing. Udall.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• SQUANDER
  scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• ABSORBING
  Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• PERISHABILITY
  Perishableness.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• DIPLOBLASTIC
  Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• DESPEND
  To spend; to squander. See Dispend. Some noble men in Spain can despend Howell.
• NEMATOBLAST
  A spermatocyte or spermoblast.