Associations to the word «Perish»
Noun
- Thirst
- Hunger
- Starvation
- Repentance
- Brute
- Famine
- Scaffold
- Wretch
- Him
- Flourish
- Pluck
- Sinner
- Wilt
- Posterity
- Fade
- Gettysburg
- Wherefore
- Falsehood
- Despair
- Beast
- Holocaust
- Wickedness
- Wilderness
- Must
- Immortality
- Able
- Rot
- Woe
- Renown
- Foe
- Toil
- Plague
- Sink
- Mankind
- Flame
- Fate
- Auschwitz
- Fiend
- Soul
- Agony
- Hereafter
- Almighty
- Misery
- Decay
- Die
- Wrath
- Grief
- Penance
- Nay
- Progeny
- Drowning
- Sword
Adjective
Verb
Wiktionary
PERISH, verb. (intransitive) To pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.
PERISH, verb. (intransitive) To die; to cease to live.
PERISH, verb. (transitive) (obsolete) To cause to perish.
Dictionary definition
PERISH, verb. Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102".
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.