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 Definitions of perish  [ˈpɛr ɪʃ]  

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Definition of 'perish' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (v.i.) perish
to die as a result of violence, privation, etc.

2.  perish
to pass away or disappear.

3.  perish
to suffer destruction or ruin.


Definition of 'perish' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (verb) 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
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"


Definition of 'perish' Webster Dictionary 

1. (verb) perish
to be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away

2. (verb) perish
to cause perish


Translation of 'perish' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: to die, especially in war, accident etc
Many people perished in the earthquake.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: vergaan Arabic flag Arabic: يَهْلَك، يَفْنى Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: загивам
Brazilian flag Brazilian: morrer Czech flag Czech: zahynout German flag German: umkommen
Danish flag Danish: omkomme Greek flag Greek: πεθαίνω, χάνομαι Spanish flag Spanish: perecer, fallecer
Estonian flag Estonian: hukkuma Farsi flag Farsi: مردن Finnish flag Finnish: menehtyä
French flag French: périr Hebrew flag Hebrew: לַמוּת Hindi flag Hindi: मरना, मर जाना
Croatian flag Croatian: poginuti Hungarian flag Hungarian: elpusztul Indonesian flag Indonesian: binasa
Icelandic flag Icelandic: farast, deyja Italian flag Italian: perire Japanese flag Japanese: 死ぬ
Korean flag Korean: 죽다 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: žūti, mirti Latvian flag Latvian: iet bojā
Malay flag Malay: terkorban Dutch flag Dutch: om het leven komen Norwegian flag Norwegian: omkomme, dø
Polish flag Polish: zginąć Persian flag Persian: مردن Pashto flag Pashto: تباه كول، له مينځه وړل: و
Portuguese flag Portuguese: morrer Romanian flag Romanian: a pieri Russian flag Russian: погибать, умиать
Slovak flag Slovak: zahynúť Slovenian flag Slovenian: umreti Serbian flag Serbian: umreti
Swedish flag Swedish: dö, omkomma, gå under Thai flag Thai: เสียชีวิ Turkish flag Turkish: ölmek, can vermek
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 死去 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: гинути Urdu flag Urdu: ہلاک ہونا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: chết/ diệt vong Chinese flag Chinese: 死去

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