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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whither.

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Examples

  • They got big pythons in Asia (Burma for instance), and that's where Munjaks are, they are pretty small, real small really, that could be a 10 foot python and a 20 inch at the whithers muntjak.

    Snake-Bit! 2009

  • They got big pythons in Asia (Burma for instance), and that's where Munjaks are, they are pretty small, real small really, that could be a 10 foot python and a 20 inch at the whithers muntjak.

    Snake-Bit! 2009

  • If the second is not fed blood, it turns black, whithers, and dies.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger Lite 12 March 2010

  • Now we play the waiting game for the owner of said lottery blog to come here, tear off his mask, and we find out it is old man whithers – the blog janitor.

    Using Free WordPress.com Blogs to pass coded messages? « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy 2008

  • She whithers from my anger; slowly receding but not yet gone, she clings with the frailest of fingertips.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Brigindo 2008

  • She whithers from my anger; slowly receding but not yet gone, she clings with the frailest of fingertips.

    Myths Brigindo 2008

  • Her shoulders were well sloped, and her croup dead level with her whithers.

    Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005

  • The ghosts were screaming round him like scared birds flying all whithers.

    The Odyssey 1900

  • The tongue can run all whithers and talk all wise; it can go here and there, and as a man says, so shall he be gainsaid.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • He will go back when he has given his horses their fill of being driven all whithers under our walls, and will be in no mind to try and force his way into the city.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

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