wither

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To dry up or shrivel from or as if from loss of moisture.
2. v. To lose freshness; droop.
3. v. To cause to shrivel or fade.
4. v. To render speechless or incapable of action; stun: The teacher withered the noisy student with a glance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Against; in opposition (to): chiefly in composition, as a prefix wither-, against.
2. To go against; resist: oppose.
3. To cause to become dry and fade; make sapless and shrunken.
4. To cause to shrink, wrinkle, and decay for want of animal moisture; cause to lose bloom; shrivel; cause to have a wrinkled skin or shrunken muscles: as, time will wither the fairest face.
5. To blight, injure, or destroy, as by some malign or baleful influence; affect fatally by malevolence; cause to perish or languish generally: as, to wither a person by a look or glance; reputations withered by scandal.
6. To lose the sap or juice; dry and shrivel up; lose freshness and bloom; fade.
7. To become dry and wrinkled, as from the loss or lack of animal moisture; lose pristine freshness, bloom, softness, smoothness, vigor, or the like, as from age or disease; decay.
8. To decay generally; decline; languish; pass away.
9. See wither, adverb

Wiktionary

1. adv. Against, in opposition to.
2. v. obsolete To go against, resist; oppose.
3. v. intransitive To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water
4. v. intransitive To become helpless due to emotion
5. v. transitive To cause to shrivel or dry up
6. v. transitive To make helpless due to emotion

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

1. v. wither, as with a loss of moisture
2. v. lose freshness, vigor, or vitality