withers

IPA: wˈɪðɝz

The part of the back of a four-legged animal that is between the shoulder blades; in many species the highest point of the body and the standard place to measure the animal's height.
A surname.

Examples of "withers" in Sentences

When Carmel itself "withers," how utter the desolation!
The scope and cost of government grows, and liberty withers, when the family breaks down.
This is the most fascinating aspect of his recall, because it will tell us whether managerial skill withers like an unused muscle.
And it would be a vote for the fattest, laziest, richest, and least productive Wall Street businesses who profit most when American crumbles and its middle class withers.
Many of the so-called ESI plans cannot really be called insurance, since they now pass along so much of the costs of care to enrollees even as the extent of coverage withers away.
To avoid defamation in the eyes of neighbors, work colleagues, relatives and the society at large, stamped harassers may well choose to stay at home until the effect of the ink withers away.
On Tuesday night the show-ring judge Paolo Dondina agreed, making Hickory the first of her kind - and perhaps the tallest canine ever nearly 30 inches at the withers - to win Westminster in 135 years of competition.
(God) blows upon them. "blow -- The image is from the hot east wind (simoon) that" withers "vegetation. whirlwind ... stubble -- (Ps 83: 13), where," like a wheel, "refers to the rotatory action of the whirlwind on the stubble.