perish

Verb

Meaning

To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.

To cause perish.

Source: Webster's dictionary

pass die exit expire choke decease go pass away croak kick the bucket buy the farm conk pop off snuff it moulder

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can last live appear exist occur

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turn change state

fall suffocate yield drown starve abort

perished perishing

reship seriph pisher Sipher

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King Jr.

I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish. John Chrysostom

Weeds never perish. Belgian Proverb

As long as a language lives, the people will not perish. Czech Proverb

God gives wings to the ant that she may perish the sooner. Spanish Proverb