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Meaning perish meaning

What does perish mean?
Definitions in simple English

perish Verb

— To perish means to die (stop living). The fire destroyed the building, but luckily nobody inside perished. — To perish means to stop existing. After new laws were created, slavery finally perished in the country. Her decision not to date anybody she worked with perished as soon as she met Patrick. — When something perishes, it decays and breaks apart. The apples perished after being left in the hot car for three days. By that time they were brown and rotten.

perish

— verb (= die, go, pass, kick the bucket) 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

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perish English » English

die pass away expire decease kick the bucket croak disappear conk buy the farm vanish fall snuff it go peg out exit decay be destroyed pass die out demise check out breathe one’s last be lost sniff it sink pop off lost lose drop dead choke cash in one’s chips be ruined waste away succumb pass on give-up the ghost destroyed destroy depart wane ruin ring down the curtain cease to exist become extinct be killed wreck spoil join the choir invisible go under go to meet ones maker

Topics perish topics

What do people use perish to talk about?
Person Life

Die
States Quality Good

Decay

Conjugation perish conjugation

How do you conjugate perish?

perish · verb

Examples perish examples

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Simple sentences

All who take up the sword will perish by the sword.
We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools.
That whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
If a nuclear war were to break out, mankind would perish.
If the hunted should perish, the hunter would, too.
The world shall perish not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.
All those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.
You will go, you will never return, in war you will perish.
Truth doesn't perish at sea, but it often takes a long time to find an anchorage.
I shall walk that ridgepole, Diana, or perish in the attempt.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
I am your only hope, captain. If you don't do as I say, you and your crew will perish.
You will go. You will return. Never in war will you perish.
If nuclear war broke out, mankind would perish.

Movie subtitles

I call it a shame, Lady Kriemhild that you let heroes, who could not be beaten in battle, perish in fire's fury!
Whoever forsakes loyalty to the bloodbrother will perish at the wayside, all honor is lost!
I am a messenger from the shadows -- turn back ere ye perish!
Do you want Mr Windegger to perish -? And Miss Friede, who loves him -?
Are your fathers so forgetful of their fatherland. that they would let it perish rather than you?
A vampire's victim is doomed to perish without hope.
May all that melt away. May my name perish if Dreyfus be not innocent.
When brutality and the lust for power must perish by its own sword.
So long as men die liberty will never perish.
Perish the thought!
Perish the man whose mind is backward now.
The nation which neglects the purity of its race will perish.
I'll perish without a hair of the dog.
It's so beautiful I could burst. Break into pieces, disappear, perish.
Oh, perish the thought.
But people of Prague, I ask you. shall we perish for the vicious act of a murdering manic? Stop that immediately!
Perish the thought, dear aunties. That was just Mortimer.
Without the buffalo, the Indian would perish.
I simply wilt away and perish. Take your big feet off of there, williams, Or i'll perish you.
Alone at night? You'd perish.
Perish by them, you mean.
Perish the thought.
When I killed the first man, I needed some money to pay the baron some hogs that perish from his herds.
His ideal is to perish bravely under the ruins.
I can perish.
Drink champagne and stuff yourselves, while others perish!
And see! The lifebuoy. He saved himself but let The mariners perish.
That sense can't perish.
Yes, he that loveth danger shall perish in it.
Ay, let her rot and perish and be damned tonight, for she shall not live.

News and current affairs

Second, fertility rates and population growth in the Horn of Africa continue to be extremely high, even as children perish in the famine.
They cannot compete with efficient steel mills elsewhere - including (perish the thought) Korea's state-owned steel company.
Organizations, like species, become inbred and weak, and eventually perish, when they fail to embrace diversity.
Indeed, we are warned almost daily - by the International Monetary Fund and others - that if bailout efforts are not greatly expanded, the euro will perish.
Others, however, were forced to return to Hitler's Germany, where they were soon to perish.
They are part of the small patch in the Ottoman mosaic that was preserved in modern Syria; but they would perish if it were to disappear.
If China continues on its current, heedless course, prospects for a rules-based order in Asia could perish forever.

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