Perish

Definition: Perish

Perish

Verb

1. Pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "perish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Language

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Perish

Cold

Verb: be cold. Adjective: shiver, starve, quake, shake, tremble, shudder, didder, quiver; freeze, freeze to death, perish with cold.

Death

Verb: die, expire, perish; meet one's death, meet one's end; pass away, be taken; yield one's breath, resign one's breath; resign one's being, resign one's life; end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly career; breathe one's last; cease to live, cease to breathe; depart this life; be no more. Adjective: go off, drop off, pop off; lose one's life, lay down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life; drop into the grave, sink into the grave; close one's eyes; fall dead, drop dead, fall down dead, drop down dead; break one's neck; give up the ghost, yield up the ghost; be all over with one.

Destruction

Verb: be destroyed; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all with; totter to its fall.

Deterioration

Run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale, sweal; lapse, be the worse for; sphacelate: break, break down; spring a leak, crack, start; shrivel; (contract); fade, go off, wither, molder, rot, rankle, decay, go bad; go to decay, fall into decay; " fall into the sear and yellow leaf", rust, crumble, shake; totter, totter to its fall; perish; die.

Fasting

Verb: fast, starve, clem, famish, perish with hunger; dine with Duke Humphrey; make two bites of a cherry.

Inexistence

Verb: not exist; have no existence; be null and void; cease to exist; pass away, perish; be extinct, become extinct; Adjective: die out; disappear; melt away, dissolve, leave not a rack behind; go, be no more; die.

Crosswords: Perish

The young perish and the old linger. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Surely you will not let your old friend perish! (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence)

I burn, I pine, I perish. (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith)

No? Then perish with us. (House of Usher; writing credit: Richard Matheson; Edgar Allan Poe)

Perish the thought (Cherish; performing artist: Madonna)

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• How Democracies Perish (reference)

• If I Perish (reference)

• Perish Twice (reference)

• To Perish in Penzance (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• If I Perish (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Everything Must Perish [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

• False Things Must Perish [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

• Fold & Perish (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

An unidentified bird skull hangs in the branches of a mangrove where it reminds volunteers of the importance of the clean-up. When monofilament is left in roosting areas, birds will continue to perish.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Lest liberty perish from the face of the earth - buy bonds / Ioseph Pennell del. & c.Credit: Library of Congress.

The Red Devil doesn't die, the big mess doesn't stop] [to tolerate communists and fight against Japanese is to perish China, hope to wake from dream soon, to build happy land.Credit: Library of Congress.

Lest we perish Campaign for $30,000,000 ; American Committee for Relief in the Near East ; Armenia - Greece - Syria - Persia ; One Madison Ave., New York, Cleveland H. Dodge, Treasurer.Credit: Library of Congress.

Give or we perish American Committee for Relief in the Near East--Armenia-Greece-Syria-Persia--Campaign for $30,000,000 / / W.T. Benda ; Alco-Gravure Inc., N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress.

Lest they perish Campaign for $30,000,000 - American Committee for Relief in the Near East--Armenia-Greece-Syria-Persia / / W.B. King ; Conwell Graphic Companies, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress.

That liberty shall not perish from the earth Fourth Liberty Loan / / Ioseph Pennell del. ; Ketterlinus Phila. imp.Credit: Library of Congress.

Give or we perish American Committee for Relief in the Near East--Armenia-Greece-Syria-Persia--Campaign for $30,000,000 / / W.T. Benda ; Alco-Gravure Inc., N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress.

You--Buy a Liberty bond lest I perish / C.R. Macauley.Credit: Library of Congress.

Lest they perish Campaign for $30,000,000 - American Committee for Relief in the Near East--Armenia-Greece-Syria-Persia / / W.B. King ; Conwell Graphic Companies, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

What must be done in the case? I answer; the fundamental law of nature being, that all, as much as may be, should be preserved, it follows, that if there be not enough fully to satisfy both, viz, for the conqueror's losses, and children's maintenance, he that hath, and to spare, must remit something of his full satisfaction, and give way to the pressing and preferable title of those who are in danger to perish without it. (Second Treatise of Government)

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. (The Gettysburg Address)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Entering without precaution into the sunken sewer, they might perish.

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Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "perish": perish at the stake ♦ perish on the block ♦ perish the man! ♦ perish the thought! ♦ perish with cold ♦ perish with hunger. Additional references.

Albanian

prishem (be destroyed, break off, decay, decompose, deteriorate, fail, fall, fall out, fall to pieces, go awry, go phut, go wrong, pack up, putrefy, quarrel, rot, run to seed, separate, take apart, touch, turn sour), vdes (be dying, burst, croak, decease, depart, die, die away, die down, do in, end, evaporate, expire, give up the ghost, go to glory, go under, go west, necrose, pack up, pass away, pass over, pop off, snuff it, turn up one's toes, wither), mbaroj (be over, call it a day, cease, close, decline, despatch, die, dispatch, do, drink up, eat up, end, finish, get through, go out, lapse, peter out, spend, surcease, terminate, wind up), kalbem (become rotten, decay, decompose, go bad, putrefy, rot, spoil). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فنى (consume, exterminate, polish off), ‏فقد (collapse, forfeit, lose, squander, wastage), ‏مات (check in, check out, croak, decease, depart, die, die off, end, expire, give up the ghost, go west, pass away, pass on, peg out, rest in peace, snuff it, snuff out, succumb), ‏هلك (damn), ‏تعفن (corruption, decay, decompose, decomposition, infection, mildew, mold, molder, moldiness, mould, moulder, mouldiness, mustiness, putrefaction, putrefy, putrescence, putridity, rot, sweat), ‏إنهار (break down, cave, collapse, come down, crack, crash, crock, crumple, drop, fall, fall in, founder, go under, plummet, ruin, run down, sink, slough, slump, tumble, tumble down), ‏أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken). (various references)

Bulgarian 

развалям (alloy, bitch, blunder, break up, change, contaminate, corrupt, deprave, disaffirm, injure, louse up, mangle, mess about, mess around, muddle, murder, mutilate, nip, queer, spoil, uglify, undo, vitiate), загнивам (become rotten, molder, moulder, rot), загивам (die, fall, lose, ruin, succumb, wither), премалявам, прималявам, погивам (be lost), попарвам (blight, damp, frost, infuse, kill, nip, scald, steam, touch, wither). (various references)

Chinese 

隕 (fall, meteor), 淪 , 消灭 (Decimate, Decimated, Decimating, Eliminate, Eliminated, Eliminating, Perished, Perishing), 消滅 (cause to perish), 殞 (die), 毀滅 (destroy, ruin). (various references)

Czech

zemřít (die, expire, pass away), zaniknout (become extinct, come to an end, die out), zahynout (fall). (various references)

Dutch

ondergaan (abide, bear, endure, founder, go down, put up with, set, sink, suffer), omkomen (pass, pass by), creperen. (various references)

Esperanto

perei. (various references)

Faeroese

umkomast, glatast. (various references)

Farsi 

مردن (Decease, Demise, Dying, Expire, Passaway, Quail), هلاک شدن , نابودکردن (Annihilate, Expunge), تلف شدن . (various references)

Finnish

tuhoutua (be destroyed, be ruined, be wrecked). (various references)

French

s'abîmer, périr. (various references)

Frisian

ferkomme. (various references)

German

umkommen (be killed, become corrupted, become depraved, die), untergehen (be destroyed, become enslaved, become run-down, come to an end, decline, founder, go down, go under, lose, set, sink, vanish). (various references)

Greek 

χάνομαι (disappear, get lost, lose out). (various references)

Hebrew 

למוך (be humiliated), למות (decease, die, expire, go west, succumb), ללכת לאב�"ן (be destroyed, be lost, go to the dogs), לאבול (lament, languish, mourn, wither), לאבו�" (be lost, cease, die, lose, stray), לכלות (be finished, die out, end, run out, use up), ל�"מק (be consumed, rot), ל�"תקלקל (deteriorate, go bad, go to the dogs, go wrong, spoil), ל�"שמ�" (be destroyed, be devastated), ל�"אב�" (be lost, disappear), ל�"ספות, לסוף (cease, vanish), לספות (destroy, sweep away), ל� בול (degenerate, fade, run to seed, wear away, wilt, wither). (various references)

Hungarian

tönkretesz (blemish, cripple, crock, destroy, do for, flatten out, ruin, scathe, spoil, to batter, to blast, to blemish, to bring to ruin, to crash, to craze, to disorder, to do for, to hamstring, to lay flat, to lay low, to ravage, to scathe, to spoil, to vandalize, to wreck), elpusztul (die, to canker, to consume, to go by the board, to go to rack a ruin, to go to rack and ruin, to lose plant, to perish, to rot off), elpusztít (consume, demolish, destroy, devastate, devour, Harry, havoc, slay, to blast, to canker, to consume, to desolate, to destroy, to devastate, to do away with, to harry, to kill off, to lay waste, to prang, to ravage, to scathe, to scorch, to waste). (various references)

Indonesian

musnah (gone, vanish), mendapat celaka, binasa (destroyed). (various references)

Italian

perire (die), morire (die, die away, die down, die out, end, expire, fade, fail, go out, kick the bucket, pass away, spoil), deteriorarsi (deteriorate), deperire (decay, decline, fall, fall off, go, go back, waste away, wither). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

滅びる (to be, to be ruined, to go under, to perish). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほろびる (to be destroyed, to be ruined, to go under, to perish), はてる (to be exhausted, to be finished, to die, to end, to perish). (various references)

Korean 

비명에 죽십시�". (various references)

Manx

shirgaghey (atrophy, contract, dry up, languish, mummify, sear, shrivel, wilt, wither, withering), jannoo dhone (sear), geddyn baase (decease, die), fioghaghey, cherraghtyn. (various references)

Pig Latin

erishpay

Polish

umrzeć, ginąć. (various references)

Portuguese

perecer (do for, lose). (various references)

Romanian

prãpãdi (annihilate, destroy, die, ravage, waste), pieri (die, disappear, expire, flee, go under, lapse), se termina (be up, close, come out, finish, go out, pass, pass off, peter out, rest, spend, terminate), se sfârşi (be at an end, come to an end, draw in, end, end one's day, expire, pass, pass away, stop), nu mai putea (be dying for smth., be dying to smth., bubble over), muri (croak, decease, depart, die, drop off, expire, get off the hooks, go, go west, hop the perch, kick in, pack up, part, pass, pass away, pass on, pay the debt of nature, peg out, suffer), distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck). (various references)

Russian 

страдать (dree, suffer, suffered), умирать (be dying, die, died, expire, part, waste away), погибать (die out, do for, go under). (various references)

Scottish

b� saich (wither). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

poginuti (die), stradati (suffer), skapavati (die). (various references)

Spanish

perecer (be lost). (various references)

Swedish

förgås (be lost, go the way of all flesh, swelter), omkomma (die). (various references)

Turkish

yok olmak (clear away, disappear, dissolve, evanesce, evaporate, ooze away, vanish), kırağı çalmak (frost), donmak (bind, chill, congeal, freeze), can vermek, bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, collapse, conk, decay, decline, deteriorate, disrupt, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sour, spoil, stale, taint, turn, turn sour, upset), ölmek (belly up, bite the dust, cash in, choke, conk, croak, cross the styx, cut up, decease, depart, die, end, exit, expire, gasp one's life out, give up the ghost, go, go belly up, go hence, go the way of all flesh, go west, hand in one's checks, hand in one's chips, hop the twig, kick the bucket, pass away, pass in, pass out, pay one's debt to nature, peg out, pip, pip out, pop off, return to dust, snuff it, succumb, yield up the ghost), çürümek (become unsound, canker, decay, decline, decompose, fester, go bad, go off, languish, molder, moulder, putrefy, ret, rot, sphacelate, spoil). (various references)

Turkmen 

helдk bolmak. (various references)

Ukranian 

гинути (die out, flummox, go under, totter, wrack), зникнути (bundle out, cease, decamp, shift away), псувати (alloy, bedevil, blemish, blight, blur, break, corrupt, cripple, debase, deface, deform, degrade, deprave, destroy, deteriorate, discount, disfigure, do for, envenom, erode, flaw, make miserable, mess, mismanage, muddle, muff, prejudice, punish, queer, spoil, vitiate, waste), пропадати (die, disappear). (various references)

Welsh

trengi (die, expire), darfod (become, come about, end, finish, grow, happen, occur), colli (be lost, lose, shed, spill). (various references)

til. (various references)

abolesco, conmori, conmoriatur, conmoriendum, conmortui, dispereat, dispereatis, disperibunt, disperierunt, disperiet, disperiit, emortuam, emortuo, emortuum, excidant, excidatis, excidebantur, exciderat, excideris, exciderit, exciderunt, excidisti, excidit, exciditur, exeam, exeamus, exeant, exeas, exeat, exeatis, exeunt, exeunte, exeuntem, exeuntes, exeunti, exeuntibus, exi, exibimus, exibis, exibit, exibitis, exibunt, exiebant, exiebat, exiens, exient, exientes, exierant, exieras, exierat, exierint, exieris, exierit, exieritis, exierunt, exies, exiet, exiit, exire, exirent, exires, exiret, exissent, exisset, existi, existis, exit, exite, exitu, exitum, exitus, exivi, exivit, intercidentis, intereant, intereas, intereat, interibis, interibit, interibunt, interierint, interierit, interierunt, interiit, interire, interirent, interisset, interitionibus, interitu, interitum, interitus, intermorientis, labaris, labatur, labi, labitur, labor, lapsa, lapsi, lapsos, lapsu, lapsus, occasu, occasum, occasus, occidam, occidamus, occidas, occidat, occidatis, occidatur, occide, occidebant, occidebat, occidebatis, occidendi, occidendum, occidendus, occident, occidente, occidentem, occidentis, occidentium, occidentur, occiderant, occiderat, occidere, occiderem, occiderent, occiderentur, occideres, occideret, occideretis, occideretur, occiderimus, occideris, occiderit, occideritis, occidero, occiderunt, occides, occidet, occidetis, occidetur, occidi, occidimus, occidis, occidisse, occidissem, occidissent, occidisses, occidisset, occidisti, occidistis, occidit, occidite, occiditis, occiditque, occidunt, pereo, perire. (various references)

forweosan, gecringan, losian. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "perish": perishabilities, perishability, perishable, perishables, perished, perishes, perishing. (additional references)

Words ending with "perish": viperish. (additional references)

Words containing "perish": imperishabilities, imperishability, imperishable, imperishableness, imperishablenesses, imperishables, imperishably, nonperishable, nonperishables. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Perish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: berish, cerish, erish, oper-ish, Parikh, partish, pedis, Pedreschi, peerish, penish, Penryth, perdiz, perico, periph, perishe, Perissa, perkish, perlish, pernish, Perpich, perris, perrish, perrys, Pertis, Perwich, Petritsch, pevish, Pheriche, piedish, Piroshki, pitish, Portisch, Porush, presh, Pretsch, prich, Pterois, Purusha. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: reship.

-1 letter: heirs, hires, peris, piers, pries, prise, ripes, shier, shire, speir, spier, spire.

-2 letters: heir, hers, hies, hips, hire, ires, pehs, peri, phis, pier, pies, pish, reis, reps, resh, ripe, rips, rise, ship, shri, sipe, sire.

-3 letters: ers, hep, her, hes, hie, hip, his, ire, peh, per, pes, phi, pie, pis, psi, rei, rep.

+1 letter: ceriphs, ciphers, harpies, hipster, hirples, perkish, pushier, reships, sharpie, shipper, spheric, whisper.

+2 letters: aphorise, aspheric, chippers, chirpers, earlship, harelips, heirship, heparins, hipsters, insphere, murphies, nephrism, parchesi, parishes, perished, perishes, pharisee, philters, philtres, pinchers, pinscher, pitchers, plashier, plushier, polisher, punisher, raphides, repolish, samphire, sapphire, seraphic, seraphim, seraphin, sharpies, shippers, shrimped, shrimper, spherics, spherier, sphering, spheroid, superhit, triphase, trophies, viperish, whimpers, whippers, whispers, whispery.

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