wither

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɪðə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [ˈwɪðə]
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• General-American: /ˈwɪðɚ/
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• General-American: [ˈwɪðɚ] ~ [ˈwɪðɹ̩]
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• rhymes with -ɪðə(ɹ)
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• homophone: whither (wine–whine merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: W IH1 DH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English wither, from Old English wiþer (“again, against”, adverb in compounds), from Proto-West Germanic *wiþr (“against, toward”). Cognates From Proto-Germanic: Low German wedder (“against”), Dutch weer (“again, back”), German wider (“against, contrary to”), German wieder (“again”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌸𐍂𐌰 (wiþra), Old Norse viðr. More at with.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

From Middle English widren, wydderen (“to dry up, shrivel”), related to or perhaps an alteration of Middle English wederen (“to expose to weather”), from Old English wederian (“to expose to weather, exhibit a change of weather”). Cognates From Proto-Germanic: Dutch verwederen, Dutch verweren (“to erode by weather”), German verwittern, wittern (“to be ruined by weather; to erode”), Swedish vittra (“wither”). More at weather.

From Middle English witheren, from Old English wiþerian (“to resist, oppose, struggle against”). Cognates From Proto-Germanic: Middle Dutch wideren, Old High German widarōn.

195 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: аканӡара́ (akʼandzará) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Arabic: صَعَقَ (ṣaʕaqa) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Armenian: թառամել (tʻaṙamel) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Aromanian: vishtidzãscu — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Belarusian: вя́нуць (vjánucʹ) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Central Bikol: luyos — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Bulgarian: изсъхвам (izsǎhvam) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Bulgarian: увяхвам (uvjahvam) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Catalan: pansir-se — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Catalan: marcir-se — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Catalan: musteir-se — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Catalan: mustiar-se — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Chechen: маргӏалдола (marğaldola) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Chinese Mandarin: 枯萎 (kūwěi) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Chinese Mandarin: 謝 /谢 (xiè) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Ngazidja Comorian: unyaya — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Cornish: gwedhra — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Czech: vadnout — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Czech: uvadat — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Czech: usychat — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Danish: visne — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Dutch: verschrompelen — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Dutch: verdorren — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Esperanto: velki — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Esperanto: forvelki — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Finnish: lakastua — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Finnish: kuihtua — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• French: flétrir — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• French: se faner — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• French: se dessécher — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Galician: mirrar — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Galician: murchar — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Galician: rechumirse — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Galician: alfar — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Galician: esmirrar — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• German: vertrocknen — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• German: welken — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• German: verwelken — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• German: verdorren — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍃𐌽𐌰𐌽 (gaþaursnan) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Greek: μαραίνομαι (maraínomai) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Ancient Greek: μαραίνομαι (maraínomai) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Hungarian: elszárad — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Hungarian: elhervad — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Hungarian: elfonnyad — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Hungarian: lekonyul — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Hungarian: összezsugorodik — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Ingrian: räytyä — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Italian: appassire — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Italian: essiccare — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Italian: inaridire — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Italian: raggrinzire — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Italian: avvizzire — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Japanese: 枯れる (kareru) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Korean: 시들다 (sideulda) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Northern Kurdish: çilmisîn — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Latin: marceō — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Latin: ārefaciō — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Lithuanian: nuvysti — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Macedonian: венеам (veneam) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Malayalam: വാടുക (vāṭuka) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Māori: kautaka — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Middle English: welken — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Mongolian: хатах (xatax) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Norwegian Nynorsk: visna — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Occitan: se passir — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Occitan: se marcir — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Occitan: se tressecar — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Old English: sēarian — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Old English: clingan — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Persian: پژمردن (pažmordan) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Polish: więdnąć — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Portuguese: murchar murchar-se — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Portuguese: mirrar — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Portuguese: mirrar-se — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Romanian: veșteji — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Romanian: ofili — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Russian: вя́нуть (vjánutʹ) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Russian: завя́нуть (zavjánutʹ) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Russian: увя́нуть (uvjánutʹ) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Russian: увяда́ть (uvjadátʹ) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Russian: со́хнуть (sóxnutʹ) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Russian: засо́хнуть (zasóxnutʹ) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Sanskrit: शुष्यति (śuṣyati) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Campidanese Sardinian: allaccanai — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Campidanese Sardinian: accalamai — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Campidanese Sardinian: calamai — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Campidanese Sardinian: carigai — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Sardinian: alleventare — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Sardinian: allizare — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Sardinian: carigare — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Sardinian: allaccanàre — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Sassarese: appassì — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Sassarese: allaccanà — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Serbo-Croatian: venuti — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Serbo-Croatian: sahnuti — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Slovene: veneti — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Slovene: uveneti — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Spanish: marchitarse — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Spanish: ajarse — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Swahili: kukauka — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Swedish: torka ut — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Swedish: förtorka — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Swedish: vissna — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Swedish: vittra — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Swedish: förtvina — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Swedish: tvina — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Tamil: வாடு (vāṭu) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Thai: เหี่ยว (hìao) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Thai: เหี่ยวแห้ง — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Thai: เหี่ยวเฉา — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Tocharian B: klaiks- — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Turkish: solmak — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Turkish: kurumak — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Ottoman Turkish: قورومق (kurumak) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Ugaritic: 𐎃𐎗𐎁 (ḫrb) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Ukrainian: в'я́нути (vʺjánuty) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Ukrainian: зав'я́нути (zavʺjánuty) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Vietnamese: héo — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Vietnamese: úa — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Welsh: gwywo — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Welsh: crino — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Welsh: crebachu — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Welsh: ffiwgro — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Yup'ik: nala- — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Zazaki: pelısyen (diq) — (intransitive) shrivel, droop, dry up
• Czech: zhroutit se — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Czech: sesypat se — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Finnish: jäykistyä — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Finnish: jähmettyä — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Greek: παθαίνω μαρασμό (pathaíno marasmó) — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Italian: inaridire — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Italian: avvizzire — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Italian: inaridirsi — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Persian: افسرده شدن (afsorde šodan) — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Romanian: veșteji — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Romanian: ofili — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Spanish: decaer — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Swedish: vittra — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Swedish: tvina — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Turkish: solmak — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Welsh: crebachu — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Welsh: nychu — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Welsh: dihoeni — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Welsh: gwaelu — (intransitive) to become helpless due to emotion
• Bulgarian: изсушавам (izsušavam) — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Catalan: pansir — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Catalan: marcir — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Catalan: musteir — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Czech: vyschnout — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Czech: scvrknout se — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Finnish: kuihduttaa — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Finnish: lakastuttaa — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Galician: mirrar — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Galician: murchar — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Galician: muchar — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Galician: rechumir — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Greek: μαραίνω (maraíno) — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Ancient Greek: μαραίνω (maraínō) — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Ancient Greek: ἰσχναίνω (iskhnaínō) — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Hungarian: elszárít — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Hungarian: kiszárít — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Hungarian: elhervaszt — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Northern Kurdish: çilmisandin — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Malayalam: വാട്ടുക (vāṭṭuka) — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Māori: whakamaroke — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Māori: whakamatiti — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Persian: پژمرده کردن (pažmorde kardan) — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Romanian: veșteji — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Romanian: ofili — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Spanish: marchitar — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Spanish: ajar — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Spanish: ahajar — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Swedish: torka ut — (transitive) to cause to shrivel or dry up
• Bulgarian: лине́я (linéja) — to lose vigor or power
• Bulgarian: отслабвам (otslabvam) — to lose vigor or power
• Finnish: kuihtua — to lose vigor or power
• German: schwächer werden — to lose vigor or power
• German: verkümmern — to lose vigor or power
• German: schwinden — to lose vigor or power
• Hungarian: elgyengül — to lose vigor or power
• Māori: kuruki — to lose vigor or power
• Māori: taero — to lose vigor or power
• Swedish: tyna — to lose vigor or power
• Swedish: tvina — to lose vigor or power
• Swedish: vissna — to lose vigor or power
• Swedish: vittra — to lose vigor or power
• Ottoman Turkish: ییتمك (yitmek) — to lose vigor or power
• Czech: ochromit — (transitive) to make helpless due to emotion
• Finnish: jäykistää — (transitive) to make helpless due to emotion
• Persian: افسرده کردن (afsorde kardan) — (transitive) to make helpless due to emotion
• Portuguese: decair — (transitive) to make helpless due to emotion
• Romanian: veșteji — (transitive) to make helpless due to emotion
• Romanian: ofili — (transitive) to make helpless due to emotion
• Spanish: decaer — (transitive) to make helpless due to emotion