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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Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.

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