PERISHING

Definition: PERISHING

PERISHING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Perish

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "PERISHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonym: PERISHING

Synonym by domain: dying (biology & biotechnology).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Destruction	Adjective: destroyed; Verb: perishing; Verb: trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall; in course of destruction; Noun: extinct.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: PERISHING

English words defined with "PERISHING": Perishment ♦ Sychnocarpous. (references)

Specialty definitions using "PERISHING": End, End- ♦ Famine ♦ lexicographer ♦ Roch ♦ Zem. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Reformatory Schools for the Children of the Perishing and Dangerous Classes (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	Again, if he would give his nuts for a piece of metal, pleased with its colour; or exchange his sheep for shells, or wool for a sparkling pebble or a diamond, and keep those by him all his life he invaded not the right of others, he might heap up as much of these durable things as he pleased; the exceeding of the bounds of his just property not lying in the largeness of his possession, but the perishing of any thing uselesly in it. (Second Treatise of Government)
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Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	He tried to warm his perishing joy in their scarlet glow, imagining a roseway from where he lay upwards to heaven all strewn with scarlet flowers.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	END, n. The position farthest removed on either hand from the Interlocutor. The man was perishing apace Who played the tambourine; The seal of death was on his face -- 'Twas pallid, for 'twas clean. "This is the end," the sick man said In faint and failing tones. A moment later he was dead, And Tambourine was Bones. Tinley Roquot
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"PERISHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 61.29% of the time. "PERISHING" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	61.29%	19	80,337
Noun (proper)	12.9%	4	175,879
Noun (singular)	12.9%	4	175,879
Adjective (general or positive)	12.9%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	31	N/A

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "PERISHING".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Bul	N/A	Biblical	Perishing
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "PERISHING": it's perishing ♦ perishing cold. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "PERISHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i tmerrshëm (appalling, awesome, awful, Creese, damnable, darn, deadly, deuced, dire, direful, eldritch, enormous, frightful, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, macabre, parlous, redoubtable, redoubted, sad, scary, terrible, terrific, towering, tragic, tremendous). (various references)

Arabic		‏برد قارص. (various references)

Bulgarian		силен (acute, athletic, beefy, emphatic, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, foul-mouthed, full, generous, hard, heavy, high, intense, invulnerable, iron, loud, lusty, main, male, mighty, muscled, muscular, nappy, nervous, nervy, pithy, potent, powerful, rattling, robust, short, shrewd, smacking, smart, sounding, stark, stiff, strong, sturdy, swingeing, telling, tenacious, thumping, thundering, torrid, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous), нетърпим (insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unendurable, unsupportable), невъзможен (bloody minded, impossible, infamous, miserable, monstrous, pestilent, terrible, unchristian, unfeasible, unthinkable, villainous, wretched). (various references)

Chinese		消灭 (Decimate, Decimated, Decimating, Eliminate, Eliminated, Eliminating, Perish, Perished). (various references)

Danish		visnen (blight, dying, wilting). (various references)

Dutch		afsterving (dying), afsterven (die away, dying, fail, slow death). (various references)

Finnish		kuoleva (dying), kuoleminen (dying). (various references)

French		très froid, frigorifié, de froid glacial, dépérissement. (various references)

German		umkommend. (various references)

Greek		μαρασμός (decline, dying, infantile atrophy, marasmus, wilting), φθίση (consumption, dying, phthisis, tabefaction, tabes, white plague). (various references)

Hungarian		átkozottul (bally, damned, deuced, deucedly). (various references)

Italian		deperimento (dying, wasting). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		斃死 (dying, falling dead). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		へいし (dying, falling dead, soldier, stoppage, the Tairas). (various references)

Korean		비명에 죽m. (various references)

Pig Latin		erishingpay

Portuguese		que perece, que faz sofrer, que causa sofrimento, efêmero (deciduous, dram, ephemeral, fleeting, frail, fuggy, momentary, perishable, transient, transitory), destruidor (chaser, demolisher, destroyer, destructive, destructor, fell, Hun, impairment, slaughterous, waster), definhamento (dying, emaciation, undergrowth), carga perecível. (various references)

Romanian		pieritor, al naibii (confounded, cursed, damned, deuced, precious). (various references)

Russian		ужасный (appalling, atrocious, awful, blood-curding, chilling, chronic, damnable, damned, desperate, dire, direful, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruelling, gruesome, hair raising, hair-raising, hairy, heinous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, macabre, spooky, terrible, tragic, unearthy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ubistven (lethiferous, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential), opak (blackhearted, evil, malefic, malignant, nefarious, pernicious, severe, ugly, wicked). (various references)

Spanish		marchitamiento (dying). (various references)

Swedish		vissnande (dying, fading, shrinkage, wilting, withering), förfärligt (awfully, thundering), förfärlig (abominable, abysmal, alarmed, awful, dismayed, dreadful, dumbfounded, frightful, gruesome, horrible, put out of countenance, terrible), förbaskad (ballup, blessed, blinking, confounded, damn, damnable, damned, darned, deuced, devilish, dratted, flaming, plaguey, plaguy), döende (dying, moribund). (various references)

Turkish		dondurucu (chilling, cryo-, cutting, deep-freezer, freezer, freezing, frosty, nipping, refrigerant), öldürücü (baneful, deadly, deathlike, deathly, fatal, fateful, fell, homicidal, killing, lethal, murderous, pestilent, pestilential, virulent, vital). (various references)

Vietnamese		chết đi được. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Luke Chapter 15, Verse 17
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	EiV eauton de elqwn eipen posoi misqioi tou patroV mou perisseuousin artwn egw de limw apollumai
Latin	405	Vulgate	In se autem reversus dixit quanti mercennarii patris mei abundant panibus ego autem hic fame pereo
Old English	990	West Saxon	þa beþohte he hine and cwæð; Eala hu fela yrðlinga on mines fæder huse hlaf genohne habbað and ic her on hungre forwurðe;
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And he turnede ayen to hym silf, and seide, Hou many hirid men in my fadir hous han plente of looues; and Y perische here thorouy hungir.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Then he came to him selfe and sayde: how many hyred servauntes at my fathers have breed ynough and I dye for honger.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, and I am perishing with hunger!
Basic English	1964	Ogden	But when he came to his senses, he said, What numbers of my father's servants have bread enough, and more, while I am near to death here through need of food!
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Language	Luke Chapter 15, Verse 17
Cebuano	Apan sa nahiulian na siya sa pamuot, siya miingon, `Pagkadaghan gayud sa mga sinuholan sa akong amahan nga may mga pagkaon nga nanghingapin, samtang dinhi nagakamatay ako sa gutom!
Croatian	"Došavši k sebi, reèe: 'Koliki najamnici oca moga imaju kruha napretek, a ja ovdje umirem od gladi!
Danish	Men han gik i sig selv og sagde: Hvor mange Daglejere hos min Fader have ikke Brød i Overflødighed? men jeg omkommer her af Hunger.
Dutch	En tot zichzelven gekomen zijnde, zeide hij: Hoe vele huurlingen mijns vaders hebben overvloed van brood, en ik verga van honger!
Finnish	Niin hän meni itseensä ja sanoi: `Kuinka monella minun isäni palkkalaisella on yltäkyllin leipää, mutta minä kuolen täällä nälkään!
French	Étant rentré en lui-même, il se dit: Combien de mercenaires chez mon père ont du pain en abondance, et moi, ici, je meurs de faim!
German	Da schlug er in sich und sprach: Wie viel Tagelöhner hat mein Vater, die Brot die Fülle haben, und ich verderbe im Hunger!
Hungarian	Mikor aztán magába szállt, monda: Az én atyámnak mily sok bérese bõvölködik kenyérben, én pedig éhen halok meg!
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Akhirnya ia sadar dan berkata, 'Orang-orang yang bekerja pada ayahku berlimpah-limpah makanannya, dan aku di sini hampir mati kelaparan!
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Lalu sadarlah ia akan dirinya serta berkata: Berapa banyak orang gaji bapaku yang beroleh makanan dengan berlimpah-limpah, tetapi aku di sini binasa dengan kelaparan!
Manx Gaelic	As tra v'eh er jeet huggey hene, dooyrt eh, Nagh nhimmey sharvaant failt t'ec my ayr ta nyn saie arran oc, as fooilliagh, as ta mish goll mow laccal beaghey!
Maori	No te hokinga ake ia o ona whakaaro, ka mea ia, Ano te tini o nga kaimahi a toku papa, he nui noa atu a ratou taro, ko ahau ia ka ngaro i te kaikore!
Norwegian	Men da kom han til sig selv og sa: Hvor mange leiefolk hos min far har fullt op av brød, men jeg setter livet til her av sult!
Portuguese	Caindo, porém, em si, disse: Quantos empregados de meu pai têm abundância de pão, e eu aqui pereço de fome!
Rumanian	Wi -a venit kn fire, wi a zis: ,Ckyi argayi ai tatqlui meu au belwug de pkne, iar eu mor de foame aici!
Russian	рТЙ�"С ЦЕ Ч УЕ�'С, УЛБЪБМ: УЛПМШЛП ОБЕНОЙЛПЧ Х ПФ�"Б НПЕЗП ЙЪ�'ЩФПЮЕУФЧХАФ ИМЕ�'ПН, Б С ХНЙТБА ПФ ЗПМП�"Б;
Shuar	Tumáa pujus nuinkia Enentáimpramai. "Winia Aparuí takau shuar pénkeran ti Yurumáiniawai. Tura wikia jui tsukarui Wáitiajai.
Spanish	Entonces volviendo en sí, dijo: "¡Cuántos jornaleros en la casa de mi padre tienen abundancia de pan, y yo aquí perezco de hambre!
Swahili	Alipoanza kupata akili akafikiri: `Mbona kuna wafanyakazi wengi wa baba yangu wanaokula na kusaza, nami ninakufa njaa?
Swedish	Då kom han till besinning och sade: 'Huru många legodrängar hos min fader hava icke bröd i överflöd, medan jag har förgås av hunger!
Uma	"Ka'omea-na, mokanono-imi, na'uli': `Topobago hi tomi tuama-kule, melabi lia pongkoni' -ra. Hiaa' aku' -mi-kuna hi rehe'i, neo' mate modupu' -ama.
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Misspellings
	"PERISHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ferrishyn, Peicheng, plenishings, Poprischin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-i-n-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: speiring, sphering, spiering.
	-2 letters: heiring, hingers, inspire, peising, pingers, pishing, prising, shinier, spinier, spiring, springe.
	-3 letters: genips, gripes, hieing, hinger, hinges, hiring, neighs, nigher, perish, pieing, pinger, pinier, reigns, renigs, repins, reship, resign, ripens, riping, rising, sering, shiner, shrine, sigher, signer, singer, siping, siring, sniper, spring.
	-4 letters: genii, genip, girns, girsh, grins, gripe, grips.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-i-n-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: insphering, reshipping, whispering.
	+2 letters: repolishing, whisperings.
	+3 letters: premonishing, preshrinking, priggishness, replenishing, republishing, shipwrecking, spearfishing, whisperingly.
	+4 letters: angiographies, guttersnipish, horsewhipping, iconographies, impoverishing, pharyngitides, reemphasizing, sprightliness.
	+5 letters: parenthesizing, predischarging, priggishnesses, prizefightings, scintigraphies.
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