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PERISH
die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
(verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; “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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
perish (third-person singular simple present perishes, present participle perishing, simple past and past participle perished)
(intransitive) To decay and disappear; to waste away to nothing.
(intransitive) To decay in such a way that it can't be used for its original purpose
(intransitive) To die; to cease to live.
(transitive, obsolete) To cause to perish.
Synonyms
• decease, pass away
• See also die
Anagrams
• hipers, pisher, reship, seriph
Source: Wiktionary
Per"ish, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Perished; p. pr. & vb. n. Perishing.] Etym: [OE. perissen, perisshen, F. périr, p.pr. périssant, L. perire to go or run through, come to nothing, perish; per through + ire to go. Cf. Issue, and see -ish.]
Definition: To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away. I perish with hunger! Luke xv. 17. Grow up and perish, as the summer fly. Milton. The thoughts of a soul that perish in thinking. Locke.
Per"ish, v. t.
Definition: To cause perish. [Obs.] Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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