wither
wi dher
- v wither, as with a loss of moisture
- v lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
- Without the intellectual stimulus, this country will wither on the vine.
- The grandiose plans for the building was allowed to wither when recession set in.
- American democracy is now in dangernot from any one set of ideas, but from unprecedented changes in the environment within which ideas either live and spread, or wither and die.