VERB Synonyms: die, be killed, be lost, expire More Synonyms of perish 2. the ferry disaster in which 193 passengers perished. destroy, perish (Aramaic) corresponding to abad- destroy, perish. written Most of the butterflies perish in the first frosts of autumn. Definition to perish NASB Translation destroy (3), destroyed (3), perish (1). Everyone aboard the ship perished when it sank off the coast of Maine. verb If people or animals perish, they die as a result of very harsh conditions or as the result of an accident.All of us would have perished of exposure and hunger had we not recaptured our ponies.Sandy Lee Gilmore perished in the early morning blaze at her terraced home on the Drumtara estate.Sanchez perished in a mudslide in 1985.He is believed to have perished fairly early in the prolonged series of guerrilla activities he inaugurated against Rome.From the Cambridge English Corpus The conventional wisdom of the pre-1970 period had perished in the' stagflation' and social strife of the recent past. Most domestic building was in wood and has perished, but some of the great mural fortresses survive. From the Cambridge English Corpus An emergent stratum of shade-tolerant broadleaved species develops and eventually replaces the pine trees, many of which perished 45-75 y after abandonment.But by far the majority perish, before they are even hatched - or at least before they reach maturity and breed themselves.Five children perished before firefighters could put out the blaze.To be in a state of decay or passing away. To waste away as, a leg or an arm has perished. To die to wither and decay applied to plants. Men perish by disease or decay, by the sword, by drowning, by hunger or famine, &c. But in 1691 the boy was reported to have fallen accidentally from a second-story window and perished. To die to lose life in any manner applied to animals.We must make sure that democracy does not perish.► see thesaurus at die 2 especially British English DAMAGE if rubber or leather perishes, it decays 3 → perish the thought! → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus perish From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English perish per‧ish / ˈperɪʃ / verb 1 formal or literary MX DIE to die, especially in a terrible or sudden way Hundreds perished when the ship went down.
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