wither

wither is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 11 · 8 senses

Definitions

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

   "The fruit dried and shriveled"

   Synonyms: shrink, shrivel

8. verb. lose freshness, vigor, or vitality

   "Her bloom was fading"

   Synonyms: fade

Synonyms

shrink, shrivel, fade

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in wither:

whiter, wrihte, writhe

Common word forms

withers, withered, witherer, witherly, withering

Words from these letters

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