Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“withereth” is a form of

wither

UK /ˈwɪðə/ · US /ˈwɪðɚ/ verb, adverb, proper noun

Also a form of withers

Forms withers withering withered

  1. verb (intransitive) To shrivel, droop or dry up, especially from lack of water. “The flowers began to wither in the hot sun without enough water.”
  2. verb (transitive) To cause to shrivel or dry up.
  3. verb (intransitive, figurative) To lose vigour or power; to languish; to waste away; to pass away.
  4. verb (intransitive) To become helpless due to emotion.
  5. verb (transitive) To make helpless due to emotion.
  6. adverb (obsolete or chiefly in compounds) Against, in opposition to.
  7. verb To go against, resist; oppose.
  8. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

sear shrivel shrivel up shrink fade

Etymology

From Middle English widren, wydderen (“to dry up, shrivel”), related to or perhaps an alteration of Middle English wederen (“to expose to weather”), from Old English wederian (“to expose to weather, exhibit a change of weather”).
From Proto-Germanic: Dutch verwederen, Dutch verweren (“to erode by weather”), German verwittern, wittern (“to be ruined by weather; to erode”), Swedish vittra (“wither”).

From Middle English wither, from Old English wiþer (“again, against”, adverb in compounds), from Proto-West Germanic *wiþr (“against, toward”).
From Proto-Germanic: Low German wedder (“against”), Dutch weer (“again, back”), German wider (“against, contrary to”), German wieder (“again”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌸𐍂𐌰 (wiþra), Old Norse viðr.

From Middle English witheren, from Old English wiþerian (“to resist, oppose, struggle against”).
From Proto-Germanic: Middle Dutch wideren, Old High German widarōn.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up. Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither Ezek. xvii. 9.
  2. verb To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin This is man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered. Shak.
  3. verb To cause to fade, and become dry. The sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth. James i. 11.
  4. verb To cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture. "Age can not wither her." Shak.

Etymology [OE. wideren; probably the same word as wederen to weather (see Weather, v. & n.); or cf. G. verwittern to decay, to be weather- beaten, Lith. vysti to wither.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “wither”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “wither” (best matches first).

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