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Perish meaning in English

Meaning of Perish in English

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Perish

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Verb

1. buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it

pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Example Sentences:
'She died from cancer'
'The children perished in the fire'
'The patient went peacefully'
'The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Perish

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verb (intransitive)
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.  perish the thought!
noun
5.  do a perish

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Perish

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verb intransitive
1. 
to be destroyed, ruined, or wiped out
2. 
to die; esp., to die a violent or untimely death

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Perish

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v. per·ished, per·ish·ing, per·ish·es
v.intr.
1. To die or be destroyed, especially in a violent or untimely manner: "Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those who have no imagination?" (George Bernard Shaw).
2. To pass from existence; disappear gradually: "Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish" (A.J. Balfour).
3. Chiefly British To spoil or deteriorate.
v.tr.
To bring to destruction; destroy: "Many foul blights / Perish'd his hard won gains" (Thomas Hood).

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