In most cases, the stem simply withers back to the first node, and remains as an unsightly brown spur.

In outlying neighborhoods, and in smaller cities, though, many shotengai are simply withering.

Market forces would then bring it about that 'bad' schools would simply wither away, or be compelled to become 'good', if they were to remain open.

He would simply wither and die, like a flower from its bed.

Then they simply withered away, like earthworms on a hot sidewalk.

The mighty form simply withered, overcome by the baneful runes on the dagger.

Her father would simply wither away without it.

Representative forms of government do not simply wither, or disappear.

Most of the other companies that have offered direct challenges to Microsoft have also succumbed to mergers or simply withered and died.

The artists' great fear is that without Government funding, French culture will simply wither.