perish Definition
per·ish (per′is̸h)
perish Idioms
perish the thought!
do not even consider such a possibility!
perish Synonyms
perish Usage Examples
Object
- thought: We may even be becoming trendy, perish the thought!
- crew: The remainder of the crew perished with their plane on impact with the ground.
- passenger: All but five of the passengers perished under the water.
Modifying Another Word
- miserably: Are they fit keepers of it, vile as they have made themselves, and doomed to perish miserably?
- eternally: If we do not, we will perish eternally!
- likewise: If you don't repent you will all likewise perish!
- utterly: They cannot withstand us, but will utterly perish.
Followed by an intransitive particle
along: His son who perished along with him was the oldest of a family of five.
Used with why or when
when: But what kind of right is that which perishes when force fails?
Preposition: in
- flame: The remainder, more than a hundred in all, perished in the flames.
- storm: Alas the thorn perished in a storm in 1980.
- crash: We have been informed that Roy perished in a glider crash.
- disaster: A list of the 81 who perished in the disaster is included here.
- camp: Research on Irish people of all religions who perished in the camps is, sadly, in its infancy.
- fire: Sadly, the pair of horses he drove perished in the fire of 25th February 1902.
Preposition: of
hunger: Another group, made up of German children, went to Italy; most of them perished of hunger and disease.
Preposition: from
- hunger: Today, another 5,500 will die from AIDS, 685 mothers will die and several thousand more will perish from hunger.
- earth: Or everyone... all of mankind will perish from earth.
Preposition: with
hunger: The Danes " ... had devoured the greater part of their horses; and the rest had perished with hunger.
Preposition: by
sword: They who ever taken the sword have perished by the sword.
Browse dictionary entries near perish
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- ‹ periphyton
- ‹ periphrastic
- ‹ periphrasis
- ‹ periphery
- ‹ Peripherals
- ‹ peripheral vision
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