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perish::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, pop off, snuff it |
| Type of | change state, turn |
| Has types | buy it, yield, asphyxiate, drown, fall, famish, pip out, predecease, starve, stifle, succumb, suffocate, abort |
| Verb group | break down, conk out, die, go, fail, go bad, break, give out, give way |
The children perished in the fire.
Examples of perish
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In Christianity it is said that where there is no vision the people will perish.
From the kansas.com
Leaving smaller third sector providers with better employment results to perish.
From the guardian.co.uk
As for feeding pelicans and dolphins, there's a good chance they'll also perish.
From the dailymercury.com.au
Today, Mr. Holdren says a billion people may perish from global warming by 2020.
From the washingtontimes.com
Yet, every year, hundreds perish in accidents working with other energy sources.
From the denverpost.com
He is warned that if he ever touches his home soil again, he will surely perish.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Truth will eventually win out, or the nation will perish due to its own excesses.
From the economist.com
Once inside, they can never find the same way out and may perish trying to do so.
From the stltoday.com
That we had no other option but to join that clash of civilizations or to perish.
From the themuslimweekly.com
- Die: 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"
- To pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear; To die; to cease to live
- Gecringan, gedreosan; forweosan; losian
- This word means literally, to die; figuratively, moral desolation, or vastation. In Luke 13:3, "Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish," refers to those who had been killed by the fall of the tower of Siloam, and others who were slain by Pilate; and our Lord assured his hearers that if ...
- To become destroyed or die.
