Verb:

म्लान हो जाना, मुरझाना, कुम्हलाना,

wither's Usage Examples:

Many streams descend from the ravines only to wither away on the desert basin floors before uniting in a trunk river along the axis of a depression; others succeed in uniting in the winter season, when evaporation is much reduced, and then their trunk flows for a few score miles, only to disappear by sinking (evaporating) farther on.

She met his gaze, wondering if any part of him was capable of affection or if she'd wither like a dried-out flower.

Its immediate occasion was the disputation at Heidelberg (1568) for the doctorate of theology by George Wither or Withers, an English Puritan (subsequently archdeacon of Colchester), silenced (1565) at Bury St Edmunds by Archbishop Parker.

Although of reduced strength in the summer, they still suffice to dominate weather changes; it is during the approach of a low pressure centre that hot southerly winds prevail; they sometimes reach so high a temperature as to wither and blight the grain crops; and it is almost exclusively in connection with the cloudy areas near and south-east of these cyclonic centres that violent thunderstorms, with their occasional destructive whirling tornadoes, are formed.

Early one morning, we are told, in the fourth month, he got up, and with his hands behind his back, dragging his staff, he moved about his door, crooning over " The great mountain must crumble, The strong beam must break, The wise man must wither away like a plant."

Plants have been found to wither and die in sandy soils containing i a% of water, and in clay soils in which there was still present 8% of water.

pratense, each whorl of stamens ripens in turn, becoming erect and shedding their pollen; as the anthers wither the filaments bend outwards, and when all the anthers have diverged the stigmas become mature and ready for pollination.

On a successful wither the amount of the tea ferment or enzyme is dependent.

Leaves, after performing their functions for a certain time, wither and die.

He is really dead now, and will wither very quickly.

Synonyms:

shrivel, fall, lessen, atrophy, blast, mummify, die back, shrink, dry up, diminish, die down, decrease, shrivel up,

Antonyms:

lengthen, inflate, expand, crescendo, increase,