Perish
['perɪʃ] or ['pɛrɪʃ]
Definition
(v. i.) To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
(v. t.) To cause perish.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Decay, waste, wither, pass away, be destroyed, be ruined, be lost, come to nought, go to destruction.[2]. Die, expire, decease, cease to exist.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Decay, waste_away, be_ruined, be_destroyed, die, expire, fade_away,[SeeDECAY]
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Definition
v.i. to pass away completely: to waste away: to decay: to lose life: to be destroyed: to be ruined or lost.—ns. Perishabil′ity Per′ishableness the quality of being liable to speedy decay or destruction.—adj. Per′ishable that may perish: subject to speedy decay.—adv. Per′ishably.—v.i. Per′ishen (Spens.) to perish.
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Examples
- Perish a thousand such frail baubles as this Jewess, before thy manly step pause in the brilliant career that lies stretched before thee! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The sound by nature undergo these tortures, and are racked, shaken, shattered; their beauty and bloom perish, but life remains untouched. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Perish the daring thought that any smaller creation should come between! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The former are the foundation of all our thoughts and actions, so that upon their removal human nature must immediately perish and go to ruin. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I kissed her; and then, if I were to perish, I cannot give a clear account of what happened in the course of the next five minutes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Poverty was the cloud that veiled her excellencies, and all that was good in her seemed about to perish from want of the genial dew of affection. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I will not fly, answered Rebecca; we will be saved or perish together--And yet, great God! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I am imperfectly consoled for this disappointment by the sacred pledge, the perished flower. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I have altogether perished from the remembrance of the living, and in the next generation my place was a blank. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- They were of wood and have perished. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is called Death Valley because a party of emigrants perished there in 1849. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In fine, the ship was lost, the crew perished. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And 'the secret has perished' with him; to this day the place of Utopia remains unknown. Plato. The Republic.
- He is a curious, interesting, and nearly perished link between obsolete forms of life and those which generally prevail. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I said I was perishing for a word of advice or an accent of comfort. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He felt himself perishing slowly in unpitied misery. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The floor is bare, except that one old mat, trodden to shreds of rope-yarn, lies perishing upon the hearth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The Rhineland children tramped into Italy, many perishing by the way, and there dispersed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That the knowledge at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal, and not of aught perishing and transient. Plato. The Republic.
- Seen near, it was a chaos--hollowhalf-consumed: an orb perished or perishing--half lava, half glow. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You were not out in the perishing night, I hope, father? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The world perishes unless sovereignty is merged and nationality subordinated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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