SAT vocabulary

Wither

(Of a plant) become dry and shriveled; (of a person or part of the body) become dry and shrunken.

Example

"Without adequate water, the delicate flowers began to wither."

Etymology

Middle English: probably from Old English widerian 'to resist'.

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