n
(obsolete) Destruction or disintegration, especially a gradual one; wasting away.
v
(by extension) To make worse; to exacerbate.
v
(intransitive) To wither or waste away.
v
To wear down through attrition, especially mechanical attrition.
v
(rare) To make blunt (take the edge off)
v
(transitive) To cause (someone) to tire due to overwork; to cause (someone) to overwork to one's limit.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To discourage, depress.
adj
(obsolete) wasted away; shrunken
v
To hinder or block the passage of something moving, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding.
adj
Wasting away gradually.
v
(intransitive) Of plants: to decay and perish through excessive moisture.
v
(intransitive) To become damped or deadened.
n
(countable, specifically) A fallen tree.
v
(intransitive, aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.
v
To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc.
n
The act of throwing up froth or scum.
adj
Obsolete form of dewlapped. [Having dewlaps (of a specified kind).]
v
To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
v
(intransitive) To die gradually or slowly.
v
(rare) To take the edge off (someone's) hunger; to satiate.
n
(chiefly Britain, Canada) Alternative spelling of dryer [One who, or that which, dries; a desiccative.]
n
An instance of something drooping.
adv
bit by bit; one at a time
v
(colloquial, transitive) To make stupid; to dumb down.
n
(Ghana, colloquial) blackout, load shedding, particularly when occurring frequently but in no discernible regular pattern.
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To fall away in quality; degenerate, sink.
v
(archaic outside Scotland and dialects) To wither, decline, pine away.
v
(intransitive) To become extremely thin or wasted.
v
(obsolete) Make great; aggravate (an offence); compare greaten.
v
(obsolete, rare) To weaken.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To exhaust or wear out.
n
one who exhausts or depletes
v
(grammar) To make exhaustive (include all possibilities)
n
(obsolete) exhaustion; draining of a supply
adj
Of a person: emaciated, wasted, weakened; of the body or part of it: atrophied, shrunken, withered.
adj
Having been quenched or eliminated.
v
(transitive, cooking) To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
adj
(obsolete) Very dry; withered.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To wither away; shrivel.
v
Of foods and commodities, to spoil, rot, or otherwise become unusable due to age or storage conditions.
v
(transitive) To exhaust, use up, disable
n
The act of one who, or that which, lours.
v
(archaic) To make lean; to cause to waste away.
v
(transitive) To make soft, tender, or weak.
v
(transitive) To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.
v
(intransitive) To decay in such a way that it cannot be used for its original purpose
v
(intransitive) To mourn or grieve so intensely as to slowly decline in health, vitality or energy.
v
(transitive) To make something or somewhere less suitable for some activity, especially by the introduction of some unnatural factor.
v
Obsolete form of pine. [(intransitive) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.]
adj
Broken into pieces; split asunder.
n
(chiefly poetic) The dying back of deciduous plants in late autumn.
v
(transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To (cause to) degenerate in idleness; to make or become dull or impaired by inaction.
v
To rust completely; to become covered in rust; by extension, to break down over time and cease working.
v
(transitive) To gradually weaken.
adj
Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.
adv
(rare) Gradually encroaching, as if seeping.
n
The act of becoming shallower.
adj
Physically broken into pieces.
v
(UK, dialect, dated) To cause to shrink or shrivel with cold; to benumb.
adj
Reduced to a skeleton.
adj
Strangled; affected by strangulation.
v
(intransitive) To waste away.
adj
Wasting away, or becoming emaciated.
v
To reverse the effect of combing; to muss.
v
(transitive) To free from confusion
v
(transitive) To make no longer smooth; to roughen or furrow.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become waste (i.e. barren, dejected, dismal, feeble, or sickly) or wasted
v
(intransitive, copulative) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
v
(intransitive) To deteriorate or become unusable or ineffective due to continued use, exposure, or strain.
v
(obsolete) Of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.
v
(transitive, intransitive) to make or become wild or wilder
v
(intransitive) To fatigue; to lose strength; to flag.
n
Something that wilts or causes wilting.
v
(intransitive) To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water.
v
(intransitive) To atrophy, or waste away.
v
(idiomatic) To be unsuccessful due to neglect or inaction.
v
Obsolete spelling of withered
n
One who or that which withers.
n
One who or that which is withered or decrepit.
n
Alternative form of withername [(law) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal]
n
(law) A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal
n
(rare, dialect or archaic) An opponent; rival; adversary; enemy; (Christianity) the Adversary; the Devil.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To wither; to become, or make, lean and wrinkled by shrinkage, as from age or illness.
v
(intransitive) To become worse; to get worse.
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