perish
pronunciation
How to pronounce perish in British English:
UK [ˈperɪʃ]
How to pronounce perish in American English:
US [ˈperɪʃ]
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- Verb:
- pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Word Origin
- perish (v.)
- mid-13c., from periss- present participle stem of Old French perir "perish, be lost, be shipwrecked" (12c.), from Latin perire "to be lost, perish," literally "to go through," from per- "through, completely, to destruction" (see per) + ire "to go" (see ion). Related: Perished; perishing.
Antonym
Example
- 1. East and west must co-operate , or perish .
- 2. People drown , but often people perish long after the waves have stopped coming in .
- 3. It 's a wonder dickens didn 't explode and perish long before his death in 1870 , at age 58 .
- 4. Under your vision several billion perish .
- 5. And when the going got tough , it allowed its institution to perish .