wither
Example Sentences
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Paramount’s amendment follows the Warner board’s withering critique of Paramount’s $30 a share offer, citing numerous risks and uncertainty due to an “opaque” financing structure.
From Los Angeles Times
Connections between regions wither and the brain increasingly relies on individual regions.
She has a withering way of never uttering her former fiancé’s name, referring to him as “a man I met when I was 19.”
Was it possible that my relentless travel had caused me to miscarry — and in a country where I knew women sometimes faced withering criticism and blame for poor pregnancy outcomes?
From Salon
The plant fragments at our feet darken, wither, and die almost immediately, as if deathly allergic to our positivity.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
