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perish

[per-ish]

verb (used without object)

  1. to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc..

    to perish in an earthquake.

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  2. to pass away or disappear.

    an age of elegance that has forever perished.

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  3. to suffer destruction or ruin.

    His valuable paintings perished in the fire.

  4. to suffer spiritual death.

    Save us, lest we perish.



perish

/ ˈɛɪʃ /

verb

  1. to be destroyed or die, esp in an untimely way

  2. (tr sometimes followed by with or from) to cause to suffer

    we were perished with cold

  3. to rot

    leather perishes if exposed to bad weather

  4. may it never be or happen thus

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noun

  1. informalto die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • perishless adjective
  • perishment noun
  • unperished adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of perish1

1200–50; Middle English perissen < Old French periss-, long stem of perir < Latin ī to perish, literally, go through, spend fully, equivalent to per- per- + ī to go
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of perish1

C13: from Old French é, from Latin ī to pass away entirely, from per- (away) + ī to go
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. perish the thought, may it never happen: used facetiously or as an afterthought of foreboding.

In addition to the idiom beginning with perish, also see publish or perish.
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Synonym Study

See die 1.
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Example Sentences

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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.

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"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.

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He, like many of the others who perished, had migrated to South Africa.

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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.

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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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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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