withering away
Gradually fading out
Withering away is a gradual decline toward disappearance.
Something withers away when it slowly loses vitality, relevance, or substance until little remains: The old traditions are withering away, Her enthusiasm withered away after months of rejection.
The phrase often implies neglect or natural decay rather than sudden destruction.
- declineDecrease or refuse
- wiltingLosing turgor and drooping
- ephemeralityCondition of being brief
- transienceBrevity of existence
- evanescenceGradual disappearance from existence
fading · decay · shrinking · impermanence · languishing · ebbing · atrophy · slow death · decomposition · attrition · vestigial · entropy · deteriorate · falling apart · obsolescence · temporality · fade · waning
- declinedecline, in decline, decrease, downswing, on the decline
withering awayflourishing
Prospering vigorously
thriving · blooming · blossoming · burgeoning · growing
withering awayenduring
Persisting through time
persisting · lasting · abiding · persevering · surviving
withering awayimplosion
Violent collapse inward
explosion · crashing · shattering · snapping