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Definition

to shrivel (wrinkle and contract — usually from lack of water)

or:

to become weaker; or feel humiliated

withered = shriveled (wrinkled as they dried out)

withered = weakened (or shrank or shriveled)

The grass withers, and the flowers fade, but the word of our God stands forever.
Isaiah 40:8
My fury was gone, I felt it gone, dried up at the source, withered and lifeless.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

withered = weakened

And yet, each would wither in my arms the very night of their birth.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible

wither = shrivel

If Beatty so much as breathed on them, Montag felt that his hands might wither, turn over on their sides, and never be shocked to life again; they would be buried the rest of his life in his coat sleeves, forgotten.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

wither = shrivel (wrinkle and contract)

He could see Meo's garden patch, weedy but still with the mark of Meo's hand upon it, withering in the searing heat.
Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die

withering = shriveling (wrinkling from lack of water)

In the stained-glass window, the lovely rose changed before our eyes into a ghostly specter of my daughter's misshapen and withered arm.
Stephen King -- Rose Red

withered = shriveled (shrunken)

The long copper frame was withered like an old tree and one hand lay limp on the dirt floor.
Forest Carter -- Education of Little Tree

withered = shriveled (wrinkled)

The withered mummy shuffled forward in her rainbow dress.
Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian

withered = shriveled (wrinkled) or weakened

It is a flame spirit in you ever gathering more of itself, While you, heedless of its expansion, bewail the withering of your days.
Kahlil Gibran -- The Prophet

withering = shriveling (becoming smaller)

But months after my 18th birthday, the recession hit, gas prices shot up, my savings withered and the reality of going nowhere fast hit me in the face.
Dave Pelzer -- The Lost Boy

withered = shriveled (shrank) or weakened

He opened his pouch and drew out some withered leaves.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring

withered = shriveled (wilted, dried up)

withered = shriveled and weak

Now, away from that ocean, in the confines of a hospital bed, his body began to wither like a beached fish.
Mitch Albom -- The Five People You Meet in Heaven

wither = become weaker (shrivel)

It floated on the grass instead of walking, and the grass seemed to wither beneath it.
C.S. Lewis -- The Last Battle

wither = shrivel (become weaker)

It was absolute misery to come back into the withering coldness.
C.S. Lewis -- The Silver Chair

withering = intense and shriveling

The moment his fingers touched them they became strangely withered and dried up as with a week's sunshine.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Young Goodman Brown

withered = shriveled (wrinkled)

Small, withered women, skin creased over onto itself; dark, life-weary eyes that had seen everything.
Walter Dean Myers -- Fallen Angels

withered = shriveled (wrinkled)

sometimes there will be a withered leg or a blind eye or a crumpled back.
John Steinbeck -- The Pearl

withered = shriveled (became weaker)

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