Everyone aboard the ship perished when it sank off the coast of Maine. perish: 1 v pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life The children perished in the fire Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in ones chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, pop off, snuff it break.All of us would have perished of exposure and hunger had we not recaptured our ponies.to suffer spiritual death: Save us, lest we perish. to suffer destruction or ruin: His valuable paintings perished in the fire. to pass away or disappear: an age of elegance that has forever perished. Sandy Lee Gilmore perished in the early morning blaze at her terraced home on the Drumtara estate. verb (used without object) to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.Sanchez perished in a mudslide in 1985. VERB Synonyms: be destroyed, fall, decline, collapse More Synonyms of perish 3.He is believed to have perished fairly early in the prolonged series of guerrilla activities he inaugurated against Rome. causing destruction, ruin, extreme discomfort, or death: lost in the perishing cold. Most domestic building was in wood and has perished, but some of the great mural fortresses survive.But by far the majority perish, before they are even hatched - or at least before they reach maturity and breed themselves. used to say that something will not happen or that one hopes that something will not happen What Me help him out Perish the thought.Five children perished before firefighters could put out the blaze.quotations (intransitive) To decay in such a way that it cannot be used for its original. before you as a devouring fire he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so you shall drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as. (intransitive) To decay and disappear to waste away to nothing. But in 1691 the boy was reported to have fallen accidentally from a second-story window and perished. shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan.We must make sure that democracy does not perish.► see thesaurus at die 2 especially British English DAMAGE if rubber or leather perishes, it decays 3 → perish the thought! → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus perish From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Death perish per‧ish / ˈperɪʃ / verb 1 formal or literary MX DIE to die, especially in a terrible or sudden way Hundreds perished when the ship went down.
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