About The Word Perish
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Perish
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What's The Definition Of Perish?
[v] pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Perish: decease | die | exit | expire | go | pass | pass away Related Terms | Find terms related to Perish: age | antiquate | be annihilated | be consumed | be destroyed | be done for | be gone | be killed | be lost | be no more | be wiped out | become extinct | become obsolete | break down | cease | cease to be | cease to exist | cease to live | collapse | come to naught | come to nothing | conk out | corrupt | croak | crumble | date | decay | decease | decline | decompose | dematerialize | demise | depart | depart this life | die | die away | die out | disappear | disintegrate | dispel | disperse | dissipate | dissolve | do a fade-out | dwindle | end | erode | evanesce | evaporate | exit | expire | fade | fade away | fade out | fall | fall asleep | flee | fly | fossilize | fust | go | go away | go out | go under | grow old | hide | leave no trace | leave the scene | lose currency | melt | melt away | molder | obsolesce | outdate | part | pass | pass away | pass on | pass out | pass over | peg out | peter out | put off mortality | putrefy | quit this world | retire from sight | return to dust | rot | run out | rust | sink | sink away | spoil | stop breathing | succumb | suffer an eclipse | superannuate | turn | up and die | vanish | vanish from sight | waste | waste away | wear away | yield the ghost See Also | asphyxiate | buy it | buy the farm | change state | choke | conk | croak | die back | die down | die off | die out | drop dead | drown | fall | famish | kick the bucket | pip out | pop off | predecease | snuff it | starve | succumb | suffocate | turn | yield Perish In Webster's Dictionary \Per"ish\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Perished}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Perishing}.] [OE. perissen, perisshen, F. p['e]rir, p.
pr. p['e]rissant, L. perire to go or run through, come to
nothing, perish; per through + ire to go. Cf. {Issue}, and
see {-ish}.]
To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost;
to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
I perish with hunger! --Luke xv. 17.
Grow up and perish, as the summer fly. --Milton.
The thoughts of a soul that perish in thinking.
--Locke.
\Per"ish\, v. t. To cause perish. [Obs.] --Bacon. |
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