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Synonyms for perish
ˈpɛr ɪʃper·ish
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Wiktionary
English Synonyms and Antonyms
perish
Die, to go out of life, become destitute of vital power and action, is figuratively applied to anything which has the appearance of life.
Where the dying night-lamp flickers.
Tennyson Locksley Hall st. 40.An echo, a strain of music, a tempest, a topic, an issue, dies. Expire (literally, to breathe out) is a softer word for die; it is used figuratively of things that cease to exist by reaching a natural limit; as, a lease expires; the time has expired. To perish (literally, in Latin, to go through, as in English we say, "the fire goes out") is oftenest used of death by privation or exposure; as, "I perish with hunger," Luke xv, 17; sometimes, of death by violence. Knowledge and fame, art and empires, may be said to perish; the word denotes utter destruction and decay.
Synonyms:
cease, decease, decline, depart, die, expire, fade, witherAntonyms:
be born, be immortal, begin, come into being, come to life, exist, flourish, grow, live, rise again, rise from the dead, survivePreposition:
To die of fever; by violence; rarely, with the sword, famine, etc. (Ezek. vii, 15); to die for one's country; to die at sea; in one's bed; in agony; die to the world.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
perish
Synonyms:
decay, waste away, be ruined, be destroyed, die, expire, fade away
Princeton's WordNet
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 itverb
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"
Synonyms:
fall, function, come about, murmur, give way, elapse, hold out, pass out, run, go past, lead, top, give out, put across, go by, devolve, conk out, operate, cronk, travel, occur, last, die, scrag, fade, go away, excrete, reach, go, move, spend, rifle, slide by, asphyxiate, foul, breathe out, turn over, run low, die out, plump, legislate, happen, egest, fret, authorise, exceed, fleet, pass away, get out, drop dead, overstep, endure, give, draw, make it, congest, blend in, run short, pop off, get going, locomote, back up, choke off, expire, make pass, suffocate, grumble, slip away, authorize, live, return, cash in one's chips, kick the bucket, blend, go out, fail, fall out, hap, slip by, go on, sink, eliminate, lapse, belong, mutter, clog, pass off, give-up the ghost, go bad, become flat, survive, blow over, get, take place, gag, snuff it, overhaul, throttle, become, go through, evanesce, live on, communicate, hand, croak, clog up, run out, choke, swoon, fit, go across, sound, overtake, transcend, glide by, gnarl, exhale, extend, start, depart, decease, faint, stifle, pall, pass, proceed, break down, clear, exit, conk, stall, travel by, buy the farm, hold up, pass along, break, go along, surpass, guide, pass by, leave, strangle, work, pass on
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
perishverb
Synonyms:
decay, waste, wither, pass away, be destroyed, be ruined, be lost, come to nought, go to destructionperishverb
Synonyms:
die, expire, decease, cease to exist
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "perish":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#77 | get | |
#104 | top | |
#123 | go | |
#125 | work | |
#126 | last | |
#220 | travel | |
#342 | guide | |
#357 | return | |
#461 | live | |
#474 | start | |
#555 | give | |
#644 | hand | |
#652 | become | |
#672 | run | |
#803 | sound | |
#853 | function | |
#907 | clear | |
#1129 | leave | |
#1142 | move | |
#1176 | lead | |
#1232 | fall | |
#1493 | pass | |
#1618 | break | |
#1763 | die | |
#1931 | fit | |
#2254 | reach | |
#2636 | fail | |
#2877 | happen | |
#2919 | spend | |
#3110 | occur | |
#3227 | exit | |
#3350 | draw | |
#3943 | operate | |
#4532 | extend | |
#5041 | exceed | |
#5076 | communicate | |
#5615 | decline | |
#5628 | proceed | |
#5808 | eliminate | |
#6013 | fleet | |
#6322 | blend | |
#6558 | belong | |
#7117 | survive | |
#7229 | sink | |
#9718 | foul | |
#10008 | rifle | |
#10105 | depart | |
#10134 | decay | |
#10918 | authorize | |
#11444 | cease | |
#12336 | fade | |
#12429 | gag | |
#12849 | plump | |
#12853 | expire | |
#15135 | faint | |
#16912 | throttle | |
#16979 | stall | |
#17899 | endure | |
#18970 | transcend | |
#19455 | overhaul | |
#21097 | lapse | |
#21204 | choke | |
#25403 | hap | |
#27090 | fret | |
#27826 | perish | |
#30189 | clog | |
#30953 | surpass | |
#35818 | pall | |
#38869 | authorise | |
#39579 | overtake | |
#41253 | murmur | |
#43067 | stifle | |
#44527 | legislate | |
#45799 | mutter | |
#49828 | wither | |
#50018 | exhale | |
#57408 | grumble | |
#59200 | swoon | |
#60869 | strangle | |
#72536 | elapse | |
#73790 | croak | |
#82036 | suffocate | |
#83252 | devolve | |
#92888 | decease | |
#106803 | cronk | |
#110634 | excrete | |
#164683 | overstep | |
#166458 | conk | |
#299464 | congest |
How to use perish in a sentence?
Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.
Why is this happening ? Probably due to higher vulnerability, lack of access to good quality health care, maybe they are undernourished, and they perish more from Covid.
If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.
I lay in bed absorbing fear, collecting strength, enjoying the slumberous sounds of solitude. To perish without love, I think, is a tragedy worth knowing.
Translations for perish
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- هلكArabic
- perirCatalan, Valencian
- zahynout, zaniknoutCzech
- aballuWelsh
- schlecht werden, umkommen, zugrunde gehen, verderben, ums Leben kommen, verendenGerman
- καταστρέφομαιGreek
- perecerSpanish
- menehtyäFinnish
- périrFrench
- musnah, binasaIndonesian
- perireItalian
- לגוועHebrew
- 死ぬ, 滅びる, 亡びるJapanese
- 멸망Korean
- merwelCornish
- žūtiLithuanian
- zustLatvian
- omkomen, bederven, sterven, vergaan, wegkwijnenDutch
- zginąćPolish
- perecerPortuguese
- wañuyQuechua
- pieriRomanian
- погибать, погибнуть, пасть, сгинуть, умереть, умиратьRussian
- fSwedish
- diệt vongVietnamese
- 亡Chinese
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