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perish
[per-ish]
verb (used without object)
to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc..
to perish in an earthquake.
Synonyms:to pass away or disappear.
an age of elegance that has forever perished.
Synonyms: , , , ,Antonyms:to suffer destruction or ruin.
His valuable paintings perished in the fire.
to suffer spiritual death.
Save us, lest we perish.
perish
/ ˈɛɪʃ /
verb
to be destroyed or die, esp in an untimely way
(tr sometimes followed by with or from) to cause to suffer
we were perished with cold
to rot
leather perishes if exposed to bad weather
may it never be or happen thus
noun
informalto die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation
Other 51Թ Forms
- perishless adjective
- perishment noun
- unperished adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of perish1
Idioms and Phrases
perish the thought, may it never happen: used facetiously or as an afterthought of foreboding.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Not when the news first broke - that his younger brother Javed, along with Javed's wife and two children, had perished in the devastating Air India crash in Ahmedabad on Thursday afternoon.
"I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that, yes, we are all going to perish from this earth," she sneered while walking in a cemetery.
He, like many of the others who perished, had migrated to South Africa.
Reduced bureaucracy could benefit west coast creel fisherman who sell directly into Europe and benefit from measures to reduce hold-ups for goods that perish quickly.
Ravensbrück, located 50 miles north of Berlin, was a concentration camp built for women, where as many as 40,000 perished before the war’s end.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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