Agreements have not withered and customs have not staled their infinite variety.
The notion of national systems is still such a powerful convention amongst economic actors to the extent that it is hard to envisage it withering away.
Stinking vapour tainted the atmosphere of the entire island; - even the grass which no cinder rain had stifled completely withered up; - the fish perished in the poisoned sea.
The legitimacy of domination has withered away, and the public resistance and challenge of power has created an awakening among broader segments of the dominated group.
However, with the withering away of the neural and immunological views of the body, the genetic view is becoming increasingly the sole (soul) determinant of selfhood.
The millet has withered in the field.
Vegetation withered; livestock grew sickly and perished.
Such narrow-mindedness was perhaps one of the reasons why consumers' co-operation withered in the twentieth century.