wither away
Upper Intermediate (B2) neutral
To slowly dry up and die or get weaker, like a plant that isn't watered.
"Without any rain for weeks, the flowers in the garden began to wither away."
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longer be necessary and it would wither away.
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the other unimportant connections to kind of wither away.
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then bourgeoa institutions would proceed to naturally wither away.
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yet if they were to wither away, in the absence of medical intervention,