withering (n.)
- acid
- atrophy
- attenuation
- bitter
- caustic
- consumption
- consumptive
- corroding
- corrosive
- cracking
- cutting
- decadent
- degenerate
- dehydration
- demolishing
- desiccation
- drainage
- drying
- dwindling
- ebbing
- emaciation
- evaporation
- exclusive
- fading
- failing
- flagging
- insolation
- keen
- mordant
- mummification
- nihilist
- pining
- ravaging
- ruining
- sharp
- shrinkage
- shrinking
- sinking
- sliding
- stinging
- subsiding
- subversive
- tart
- thinning
- waning
- wastage
- waste
- wasting
- wilting
- worsening
withering (adj.)
- acerb
- acerbic
- acid
- acidic
- acidulent
- acidulous
- acrid
- acrimonious
- arrogant
- baneful
- biting
- bitter
- calamitous
- cataclysmal
- cataclysmic
- catastrophic
- caustic
- clannish
- cliquish
- consuming
- consumptive
- contemptuous
- contumelious
- corrosive
- cracking
- cutting
- deadly
- decadent
- degenerate
- destroying
- destructive
- devastating
- disastrous
- disdainful
- draining
- drooping
- drying
- dwindling
- effete
- exclusive
- fading
- failing
- falling
- fatal
- fateful
- flagging
- haughty
- incisive
- internecine
- keen
- mordacious
- mordant
- nihilistic
- penetrating
- piercing
- ravaging
- regressive
- retrograde
- retrogressive
- ruinous
- scathing
- scorching
- scornful
- searing
- self-destructive
- sharp
- shrinking
- sliding
- slipping
- sneering
- sniffy
- snobbish
- snobby
- snooty
- snotty
- stabbing
- stinging
- subversive
- suicidal
- supercilious
- tart
- trenchant
- waning
- waste
- wasteful
- worsening
Hope withering fled, and Mercy sighed farewell!
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,—
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground;
Another race the following spring supplies:
They fall successive, and successive rise.
Maidens withering on the stalk.
But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd
Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
