wither

Other forms of wither

past tense

witherred·

present participle

witherring·

third person

withers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wither

What does wither mean?

wither means "wither, as with a loss of moisture". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wither?

wither has 2 syllables: wit-her. The stress falls on "wit". In IPA it is /ˈwɪðɚ/.

What is another word for wither?

Close synonyms include shrivel, shrivel up, shrink, fade. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wither a common word?

wither is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.