We sold them, to wither.
The only way to wither those roots is with love.
The overblown roses are to wither and fall.
If you are yourself at work, you will either thrive or wither, and if you wither chances are that you are in the wrong place to begin with.
To cause to shrivel, wither, or mature imperfectly by or as if by blast or blight.
When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. "How did the FIG tree wither so quickly?"
If governments do not act to curb emissions, those investments will eventually wither.
Government will swell, freedom will recede and the great American tradition of self-reliance will wither a little.
As species wither, the Marine food chain could be disrupted; human action is needed to curtail further acidification.
With toxic friends we wither, sometimes knowingly other times unknowingly, but regardless the deteriorating effect is still the same.
Your true love is the sunshine warming my life. My life will wither away in the coldness and darkness if I lose your love.
But, if you start to neglect her, stop thinking about her, and not keeping her in your heart, your relationship will soon wither and evaporate.
Good farmers - those who don't let crops wither - earn virtual currency they can use for things like more seed or farm animals and equipment.
Disconnected and cut off from the lifeblood of a local body, your spiritual life will wither and eventually cease to exist.
But instead of flourishing in the early postnatal days, the synapses of the somatosensory cortex wither away when degus are raised without a father.
The reeds are lightly swaying, their flowers floating away on the gentle breeze, then to yellow and wither in winter's cold, only to germinate and be reborn in the Spring.
Ashkelon will see it and fear; Gaza will writhe in agony, and Ekron too, for her hope will wither. Gaza will lose her king and Ashkelon will be deserted.
A year later, when the marigold bloomed, she chose one faintest from those golden and brown flowers and made it wither naturally in order to get the best seed.
The World Trade Organisation will rapidly wither as a negotiating forum for new rules; it may eventually lose its legitimacy as an arbiter of trade disputes, whereby the old rules are upheld.
And he said, the LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
