The plants would sprout, but soon wither and die. The plants would sprout in the sunlight, but wither quickly in the heat. Representative forms of government do not simply wither, or disappear. A crop field may be patchy as plants wither and die. Once the leaves die back in summer, the roots also wither. There let me live till I wither and decay. After releasing pollen, male stalks wither. The muscles soon wither away from atrophy. Changing weather patterns and severe drought caused grasslands to wither and die in Texas. Later that evening, it is discovered that Audrey Jr. has begun to wither and die. These hairs then wither to release the fly, covered with pollen. There they can wither, which makes the threshing easier. Lassalle also rejected the Marxist view that the state was destined to "wither away". The bracts under the umbel soon wither. She then used black magic to make the tree wither.