Defenition of the word perish

• Defenition of the word perish

  • To cease to live.
  • pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"
  • pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Synonyms for the word perish

• • decease
  • depart this life
  • die
  • exit
  • expire
  • give up the ghost
  • go
  • pass away
  • take your last breath

Similar words in the perish

• • die back
  • die down
  • die off
  • die out
  • perish
  • perishable
  • perishables
  • perished
  • perishes
  • perishing

Hyponyms for the word perish

• • abort
  • asphyxiate
  • buy it
  • buy the farm
  • cash in one's chips
  • choke
  • conk
  • croak
  • drop dead
  • drown
  • fall
  • famish
  • give-up the ghost
  • kick the bucket
  • pip out
  • pop off
  • predecease
  • snuff it
  • starve
  • stifle
  • succumb
  • suffocate
  • yield

Hypernyms for the word perish

• • change state
  • turn

Antonyms for the word perish

• • be born

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