Verb
wither away (third-person singular simple present withers away, present participle withering away, simple past and past participle withered away)
(intransitive) To atrophy, or waste away.
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. Gene Roddenberry
Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there. Like the carrot, if you don't work for it, it will wither away and rot. And finally, like the carrot, there are a great many donkeys and jackasses that are associated with it. Nasreddin
Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away. Jared Polis
For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary. Vladimir Lenin
My daddy says that life comes at you fast. We are like blades of grass: We come to prime and in time we wither away. Alessia Cara
But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time. Helen Simonson