1 if a plant withers or sth withers it, it dries up and dies:
[V] The grass had withered in the warm sun. [also VN]
2 [V] ~ (away) to become less or weaker, especially before disappearing completely:
All our hopes just withered away.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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