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
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.