[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wither \with"er\, v. i. imp.  p. p. withered; p. pr.  vb.
   n. withering. oe. wideren; probably the same word as
   wederen to weather see weather, v.  n.; or cf. g.
   verwittern to decay, to be weather-beaten, lith. vysti to
   wither.
   1913 webster
   1. to fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become
      sapless; to dry or shrivel up.
      1913 webster

            shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off
            the fruit thereof, that it wither?    --ezek. xvii.
                                                  9.
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   2. to lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin? away,
      as animal bodies.
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            this is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered. --shak.
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            there was a man which had his hand withered. --matt.
                                                  xii. 10.
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            now warm in love, now with'ring in the grave.
                                                  --dryden.
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   3. to lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away. "names
      that must not wither." --byron.
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            states thrive or wither as moons wax and wane.
                                                  --cowper.
      1913 webster
see also:
withered withering weather 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

withered \with"ered\, a.
   faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. --
   with"eredness, n. --bp. hall.
   1913 webster
see also:
with"eredness 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

withered
     adj 1: lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the
            old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and
            ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a
            man with withered face and lantern jaws"-w.f.starkie;
            "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened
            little man with frizzy gray hair" syn: shriveled, shrivelled,
             shrunken, wizen, wizened
     2: used especially of vegetation having lost all moisture;
        "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere
        vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered
        seedlings"; "withered vines" syn: dried-up, sere, sear,
         shriveled, shrivelled
see also:
shriveled shrivelled shrunken wizen wizened dried-up 
sere sear 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

92 moby thesaurus words for "withered":
   sanforized, adust, anile, atrophied, attenuated, baked, brittle,
   burnt, cadaverous, consumed, corky, corpselike, crabbed,
   debilitated, decrepit, dehydrated, desiccated, doddered, doddering,
   doddery, dried, dried-up, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated,
   evaporated, exsiccated, feeble, fossilized, gerontal, gerontic,
   haggard, hollow-eyed, infirm, jejune, marantic, marasmic,
   mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummified, mummylike, palsied, papery,
   papery-skinned, parched, parchmenty, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor,
   preshrunk, puny, ravaged with age, rickety, run to seed, rusty,
   scorched, sear, seared, senile, sere, shaky, shriveled,
   shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, starved, starveling,
   stricken in years, sun-dried, sunbaked, tabetic, tabid, thin,
   timeworn, tottering, tottery, underfed, undernourished, wasted,
   wasted away, weak, weazened, weazeny, wilted, wind-dried, wizen,
   wizen-faced, wizened, wraithlike, wrinkled

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