1. Become dry, thin and weak or dead due to loss of water
   "The fruit dried and withered";
   - shrivel, shrivel up, shrink
    
2. Lose freshness, vigour, or vitality
   "Her bloom was withering";
   - fade

Sounds like: wits, wither, w

Derived forms: withers, withering, withered

Type of: come down, decrease, dent, diminish, disappear, fall, go away, go down, lessen, sink, vanish

Encyclopedia: Wither, George