Definitions for perish
ˈpɛr ɪʃper·ish

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. perish(Verb)

   To pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.

2. perish(Verb)

   To die; to cease to live.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Perish(verb)

   to be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away

2. Perish(verb)

   to cause perish

Origin: [OE. perissen, perisshen, F. prir, p. pr. prissant, L. perire to go or run through, come to nothing, perish; per through + ire to go. Cf. Issue, and see -ish.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Perish

   per′ish, v.i. to pass away completely: to waste away: to decay: to lose life: to be destroyed: to be ruined or lost.—ns. Perishabil′ity, Per′ishableness, the quality of being liable to speedy decay or destruction.—adj. Per′ishable, that may perish: subject to speedy decay.—adv. Per′ishably.—v.i. Per′ishen (Spens.), to perish. [O. Fr. perir, pr.p. perissant—L. perīre, to perish—per, completely, īre, to go.]

Anagrams for perish »

1. reship

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of perish in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of perish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of perish in a Sentence

1. Book of Proverbs:

   Where there is no vision, the people perish.

2. Vikrant Parsai:

   As long as a language lives, the war will not perish.

3. Virginia Woolf:

   Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

4. H. G. Wells:

   Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

5. Samuel Butler:

   Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

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