wither

Object

• scorn: Boris was right to go and expose himself to their withering scorn.
• contempt: I can read Islamic extremists who say much the same thing, and deserve the same withering contempt.
• glance: I did not answer very quickly, so some colleagues gave me withering glances.
• critique: The website carries a withering critique of the government's response to the Royal Commission report.
• limb: You look for a withered limb, a shorter leg, different size feet, a caliper.
• leaf: No willow branches here with their silvery blossom not even a single withered leaf to be seen not a blade of grass!

Preposition: on

• vine: Local taxpayers have been left to wither on the vine.

Modifying Another Word

• away: They hoped services would cause poverty to wither away.
• gradually: The workers ' state would gradually wither away altogether.
• slowly: Meaning has to be kept moving, by whatever means, or it will slowly wither on the vine.
• soon: Once the momentum is broken, the habit will soon wither.
• eventually: Craving is a bit like a well-developed muscle - once you stop using the muscle, it will eventually wither or shrink.
• quickly: Well they wither quickly like grass, verse 2, they fade like the green plant.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• away: Lenin envisaged the gradual withering away of the state from the very beginnings of workers ' power.
• up: Jonah moaned to God: JONAH 7: Look at my lovely little tree all withered up!

Followed by a transitive particle

• away: With their withering away the state will also wither away.

Used with why or when

• when: Trees and grass are supple and tender shoots, But dry and withered when dead.

Preposition: in

• face: Be prepared to watch your own living pets wither in the face of Dogz.

Preposition: of

• state: Only then will the prospects of the withering away of the state open up.

Preposition: like

• grass: Well they wither quickly like grass, verse 2, they fade like the green plant.