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Word Meanings - PERISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away. I perish with hunger! Luke xv. 17. Grow up and perish, as the summer fly. Milton. The thoughts of a soul that perish in thinking. Locke. (more

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To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away. I perish with hunger! Luke xv. 17. Grow up and perish, as the summer fly. Milton. The thoughts of a soul that perish in thinking. Locke. (more info) to go or run through, come to nothing, perish; per through + ire to

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  • DISAPPEARING
    p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear. Disappearing carriage , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing
  • DECAY
    To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
  • WASTEL
    A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
  • WASTETHRIFT
    A spendthrift.
  • ENLARGEMENT
    1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
  • PERISHMENT
    The act of perishing. Udall.
  • WASTEBOARD
    See 3
  • DEPARTURE
    The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
  • DEPARTMENT
    1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
  • PERISHABILITY
    Perishableness.
  • EXTENDLESSNESS
    Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
  • DEPARTMENTAL
    Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
  • DWINDLEMENT
    The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling. Mrs. Oliphant.
  • EXPIRE
    1. To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire. Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air. Harvey. This chafed the boar;
  • EXTENDANT
    Displaced. Ogilvie.
  • WASTE
    the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
  • DECAYER
    A causer of decay.
  • DECLINE
    décliner to decline, refuse, fr. L. declinare to turn aside, inflect , avoid; de- + clinare to incline; akin to E. lean. 1. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,
  • EXTEND
    To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended
  • DISAPPEARANCE
    The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison.
  • ALKALI WASTE
    Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
  • REINCREASE
    To increase again.
  • OVERWASTED
    Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
  • DISAUGMENT
    To diminish.
  • FOREWASTE
    See GASCOIGNE

 

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