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Definition of Perish
1. Verb. Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life. "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
Specialized synonyms: Abort, Asphyxiate, Stifle, Suffocate, Buy It, Pip Out, Drown, Predecease, Famish, Starve, Fall, Succumb, Yield
Generic synonyms: Change State, Turn
Related verbs: Break, Break Down, Conk Out, Die, Fail, Give Out, Give Way, Go, Go Bad, Die
Derivative terms: Decease, Decedent, Death, Death, Death, Death, Death, Death, Exit, Expiration, Going, Passing
Antonyms: Be Born
Also: Die Down, Die Down, Die Off, Die Out
Definition of Perish
1. v. i. To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
2. v. t. To cause perish.
Definition of Perish
1. Verb. To pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To die; to cease to live. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Perish
1. to die [v -ED, -ING, -ES] - See also: die
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perish
Literary usage of Perish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... my circumstances considered, I should not have named myself, but that I would
rather perish in endeavouring to save this government, than perish with it ..."
2. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"WHEREFORE IS THE SHIP WRECKED IN MID-SEA, AND ALL THE SHIPMEN perish SAVE ODYSSEUS,
WHO BARELY SAVES HIMSELF FROM CHARYBDIS, WHENCE HE IS CARRIED TO THE ..."
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