Wither

1. v. t. To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny.
2. n. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up.
3. n. To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin/ away, as animal bodies.
4. n. To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away.
5. v. t. To cause to fade, and become dry.
6. v. t. To cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.