Perish means to die, but it suggests a slow, gradual, nonviolent death. Starving to death is perishing. Getting hit by a bus is just plain getting killed.
To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
Verb
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"
v. i.
To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be
lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
v. t.
To cause perish.
Perish
I perish with hunger!
Grow up and perish, as the summer fly.
The thoughts of a soul that perish in thinking.
Perish
To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
To cause perish.
Usage Examples
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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Other Usage ExamplesEvery form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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