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withers
[ with-erz ]
noun
- the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of a horse, cow, sheep, etc.
withers
/ ˈɪðə /
plural noun
- the highest part of the back of a horse, behind the neck between the shoulders
Word History and Origins
Origin of withers1
Word History and Origins
Origin of withers1
Idioms and Phrases
- wring one's withers, to cause one anxiety or trouble:
The long involved lawsuit is wringing his withers.
Example Sentences
“Something seems really great and then it withers. .... The real thing to make downtown work and feel safer is to have more people there.”
As fine arts funding withers across sectors and Hollywood budgets shrink while studios retreat from local productions, workers are still recovering from lengthy strikes and the incipient threat of artificial intelligence.
As President Biden’s support among Arab and Muslim Americans withers over his backing of Israel in the war in Gaza, former President Donald J. Trump is making a long-shot push to take advantage.
Eight times he has come to Baltimore with a horse fast enough to leave with the blanket of black-eyed Susans that are draped over the withers of the Preakness Stakes winner.
In the process of transmuting the mid-rib of the leaf, the plant undergoes a proliferation of new vascular tissue — and avoids rotting while the rest of the leaf withers away.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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