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
Additional info about word: PERISH
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
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERISH)
- Decay Decline
- wane
- sink
- dwindle
- rot
- wither
- perish
- waste
- ebb
- decrease
- Die
- Expire
- depart
- decline
- decease
- disappear
- languish
- fade
- decay
- cease
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PERISH)
Related words: (words related to PERISH)
- 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
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