withered

While Rocky moved away and thrived, Roman withered in inadequacy feeling abandoned.

Why believe this promise of help, when the last dozen withered?

Defrocked and disgraced, Swaggart clawed his way back to the pulpit, but attendance at his church shrank, his television ministry withered and the Bible college he founded stripped away his name.

Signs of the disease can be seen through withered and blighted leaves.

“And Just Like That” already slogged through this withered territory via Steve and Miranda in what may be the show’s most realistic depiction of two people giving up on each other.