Verb (used without object) : The grapes had withered on the vine.    From Dictionary.com. 

These hang in withered mournfulness above this living image of their departed mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woman, With Other Poems] Reference

Hence it was called the withered hand, Mt 12: 10-13.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference

They hold up every hideous kind of withered arm, distorted leg, and unsightly stump.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference

Dirty and dusty, the boards loose under the cloth, it resembled a kind of withered bat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: In A Dark Wood by Amanda Craig] Reference

Just know that it makes you weird, and kind of withered inside, like Rumpelstiltskin or something.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embedding in Oprah's 'Cynicism-Free Zone'] Reference

That leverage has withered, meaning other industries need to pull more weight to get profits anywhere near prior peaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Profit Rebound Still Has Long Climb Back] Reference

Many years and many readings have not "withered" or "staled" the stories quite yet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet RMFO Blog] Reference

Once, and then it kind of withered away for a year or two because they couldn't raise the money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference

Re: Plumeria question The tips of my plumeria looks kind of withered but the plant is still very green and firm should i repot?.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

That’s a really good idea, and I have a kind of withered lemon in the refrigerator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memo to Self | clusterflock] Reference

Like pilgrim's scholars withered wreath of flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)] Reference

Beyond that, the surrounding town has withered away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boardwalk Empire: Atlantic City bets on its glamorous past to assure its future] Reference

They withered and they dried up and then they blew away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atonement] Reference

Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Happiness] Reference

But opportunities for non-Chávistas in Venezuela had withered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brain Drain] Reference

We've all been forgotten, and the fruit trees we planted are withered and rotten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucinda Williams Shines A Light On Darkness] Reference

   She rose and crossed to an ailing houseplant that withered on her bookshelf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brian's Bride] Reference

The bird shakes it off, hops along a withered row of loblollies, and out of sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes from Matrimony, # 9] Reference

He was married at the time, but the relationship had withered as he courted success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healer Of Hearts] Reference

Seconds click in which I'm changed to dust, withered roots of knots and hair and rust.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tribute To Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous] Reference

The fruit on the trees has withered or will not ripen, it is one of the two in every case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persephone] Reference

But as Blake's celebrity and creative confidence grew, Duncan's professional luck withered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Truly, Madly, Deeply] Reference

Andrew Natsios thought he recognized telltale signs in the lifeless eyes and withered limbs.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Where Are The Bodies?'] Reference

He is surrounded by "withered NORCers in motorized wheelchairs and their Jamaican caregivers.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Down and Out In Gotham] Reference

There are days when the oxygen straps slip off her ears, small and withered as dried apricots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dying Tradition] Reference

He drew sketches of Betta flavored with repugnance, her sexuality withered, brightness fallen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creatures: A Memoir] Reference

Now the Chavista-run museums have stopped acquiring "elite" works, and attendance has withered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lights! Camera! Revolución!] Reference

In the meantime, Buchanan's isolationist, paleoconservative wing of Republicanism has withered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of the Neocons] Reference

Carrillo's body looked withered, partly because several liters of fat had been sucked out of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liposuctioned To Death] Reference

As the former Soviet Union withered, we became the only real superpower on the face of the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [AN OPEN HAND, A CLOSED FIST] Reference

Once in a fit of pique, she poured vinegar on the anniversary roses which withered in his seeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parabola Tango] Reference

Eventually, the tumor faded from his mental screen, and a real-life CT scan confirmed it had withered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surviving Against All Odds] Reference

And five of the 12 reduced clitorises had withered and died, even though several had looked fine following surgery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gender Limbo] Reference

After four runs over his property in Colombia's southern Putumayo province, 17 acres of corn withered into a wasteland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into The Breach] Reference

With thin white hair and withered hands, Bardem plays the poet-activist at 55, a year before his death, with an uncanny precision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causing a Stir Lying Still] Reference

THE TREE THEY PLANTED BY THE well where she almost died a decade ago has long since withered, and the flower bed is now a dirt patch.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Baby Jessica' Grows Up] Reference