wither
verb (used without object)
to shrivel; fade; decay.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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The flow’rs and the trees will have withered ere long, The last bird already is ending his song; And soon will be leafless and shadeless the bow’rs...
From Songs of Labor and Other Poems by Morris Rosenfeld