Definition of perish in English:

perish

verb ˈpɛrɪʃˈpɛrɪʃ

[no object]

1literary Die, especially in a violent or sudden way.
a great part of his army perished of hunger and disease
他的很大一部分军队死于饥饿和疾病。
Example sentencesExamples
- Forty-nine people were killed in the city and a further 16 perished at sea.
- By the end of the 1840s over one million Irish had perished from hunger and associated disease and another two million had emigrated to escape the misery.
- Malnourished children do not typically perish from hunger but when children are weak, common childhood ailments become killers.
- While some manage the perilous crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar separating Spain from Morocco, many others perish trying.
- But, in some cases, some of the people perished as a result of the flooding.
- A great many fishermen perished at sea, especially during the brutal winter season.
- An estimated 3.3 million people perished in the war, mainly through war-induced disease and famine.
- We found her boat, in pieces on the shore, and I thought she had perished in a violent storm crossing the ocean.
- Much of the army perished at the river, and most of the rest were captured.
- Her pet cat and dog also perished in the flames.
- Approximately 200,000 Irishmen served in World War 1 and over 60,000 perished in the conflict.
- The thousands who perished there certainly deserve the honour and the remembrance.
- More than 50 million soldiers and civilians perished in the Second World War.
- We believe at this time that the boy has probably perished in the crash.
- Unfortunately, all but eight perished in World War II.
- If they had left him he could have perished in the fire.
- The house was razed and both daughters, aged 4 and 6, perished in the blaze.
- Sixty-eight journalists were killed during World War II, while 38 perished in the Korean War.
- He and Lady Charlotte both tragically perished in a great fire at the temple today.
- They survived the unknown hardships of war, only to perish while travelling to a job most Irish people would now turn their noses up at.
Synonyms
die, lose one's life, be killed, fall, expire, meet one's death, be lost, lay down one's life, breathe one's last, draw one's last breath, pass away, go the way of all flesh, give up the ghost, go to glory, meet one's maker, go to one's last resting place, cross the great divide
informal bite the dust, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, croak, flatline, turn up one's toes, shuffle off this mortal coil, go the way of the dinosaurs, conk out, buy it
British informal snuff it, peg out, pop one's clogs, hop the twig/stick
North American informal bite the big one, buy the farm, check out, hand in one's dinner pail
Australian/New Zealand informal go bung
literary exit
archaic decease, depart this life
1. 1.1 Suffer complete ruin or destruction.
  消亡，毁灭；被摧毁
  must these noble hopes perish so soon?
  Example sentencesExamples
  Much of the work from the silent era has perished or been lost to future generations.
  Will it successfully resist or perish due to state repression?
  How many beautiful friendships may perish prematurely because of people losing contact this way, as a result of some virus or other computer misfortune?
  He died in a shabby Roman hotel the year after that regime had perished.
  Her love for him, however, had slowly perished throughout the years of their marriage.
  Empires and ideologies have triumphed, perished and fallen into oblivion through the centuries.
  The Republic will surely perish without a heroic effort from all of us.
  They are afraid that their party will perish as they risk losing the support of both the ‘deep blue’ and pro-localization factions.
  They hoped the ruling party could help save the paper from perishing.
  Synonyms
  come to an end, die (away), be destroyed, cease to exist, disappear, vanish, fade, dissolve, evaporate, melt away, pass into oblivion, wither
2(of rubber, food, etc.) lose its normal qualities; rot or decay.
（橡胶、食品或其他有机物质）老化，变质；腐烂，腐朽
an abandoned tyre whose rubber had perished
Example sentencesExamples
- Since you're looking for foods that don't perish too fast and can be eaten without silverware, I suggest plant-based foods for lunches.
- Except the dry leaves, they leave all vegetation to grow and perish in the field itself to enrich the soil.
- Leaks due to cracked or perished rubber make accurate measurement of blood pressure difficult because the fall in mercury cannot be controlled.
- Oh, how foolish we are to labor for the bread that perishes.
- The tree's bright green foliage contrasted with the swing, whose wood had long perished, cut off from its source of life, and was now numb to the world.
- Some argue that organic fruit and vegetables perish quickly, but there's no need to waste food that has reached the end of its shelf life.
- It's worth jacking the car up and having a look at the brake lines (which carry fluid to the brakes), in particular the flexible rubber hoses which can crack and perish.
Synonyms
go bad, go off, spoil, rot, go mouldy, moulder, putrefy, decay, decompose
deteriorate, disintegrate, fall apart, crumble
3be perishedBritish informal Be suffering from extreme cold.
〈英〉经受酷寒
I was perished with cold before the end of the day
我经常在天黑以前冻得浑身僵直。
Example sentencesExamples
- He was not imaginative enough to ask himself whether the man might not be perishing with cold and hunger.

Phrases

perish the thought

informal Used, often ironically, to show that one finds a suggestion or idea completely ridiculous or unwelcome.
〈非正式，常讽〉死了心吧
he wasn't out to get drunk—perish the thought!
他没有出去喝醉酒，死了心吧！
Example sentencesExamples
- Or even, perish the thought, an expenditure that need not have its results measured in dollars and cents, but as an altruistic good.
- Was I - after only a few days impersonating a political reporter - becoming, perish the thought, a tad cynical?
- But perish the thought that you should actually cut your pay.
- Is there an automatic mechanism to correct the situation or, perish the thought, is the situation more pathological?
- Here, at last, we have one who seems, perish the thought, to be able to make up his own mind.
- It's just possible - perish the thought - that not everything in the world can be analysed sociologically.
- We could, perish the thought, have something of equal proportions.
- We wouldn't take a brown envelope - perish the thought!
- So perhaps - perish the thought - they're not actually coming after all?
- I wasn't unwell and there's no scandal, perish the thought.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French periss-, lengthened stem of perir, from Latin perire 'pass away', from per- 'through, completely' + ire 'go'.

To perish is literally to ‘pass away’ or ‘go away’—that is the meaning of the source, Latin perire, formed from per- ‘through, completely’ and ire ‘go’. A mischievous or awkward person, especially a child, has been a perisher since the end of the 19th century. For many the word is particularly associated with the comic strip The Perishers, about a group of children and their sheepdog Boot, which ran in the Daily Mirror newspaper from 1958 to 2006. Shakespeare's plays have not always been popular. From the later 17th century people preferred them in updated form, often with wholly inappropriate happy endings. In 1700 the English comic actor, dramatist, and theatre manager Colley Cibber brought out a rewritten version of Shakespeare's Richard III. Its only claim to fame is that it gave English perish the thought.

Rhymes

cherish

Definition of perish in US English:

perish

verbˈpɛrɪʃˈperiSH

[no object]

1Suffer death, typically in a violent, sudden, or untimely way.
死亡（尤指暴死、猝死、夭折）
a great part of his army perished of hunger and disease
他的很大一部分军队死于饥饿和疾病。
Example sentencesExamples
- He and Lady Charlotte both tragically perished in a great fire at the temple today.
- They survived the unknown hardships of war, only to perish while travelling to a job most Irish people would now turn their noses up at.
- Her pet cat and dog also perished in the flames.
- We found her boat, in pieces on the shore, and I thought she had perished in a violent storm crossing the ocean.
- The thousands who perished there certainly deserve the honour and the remembrance.
- We believe at this time that the boy has probably perished in the crash.
- Unfortunately, all but eight perished in World War II.
- Much of the army perished at the river, and most of the rest were captured.
- The house was razed and both daughters, aged 4 and 6, perished in the blaze.
- But, in some cases, some of the people perished as a result of the flooding.
- By the end of the 1840s over one million Irish had perished from hunger and associated disease and another two million had emigrated to escape the misery.
- A great many fishermen perished at sea, especially during the brutal winter season.
- Sixty-eight journalists were killed during World War II, while 38 perished in the Korean War.
- More than 50 million soldiers and civilians perished in the Second World War.
- Approximately 200,000 Irishmen served in World War 1 and over 60,000 perished in the conflict.
- Malnourished children do not typically perish from hunger but when children are weak, common childhood ailments become killers.
- Forty-nine people were killed in the city and a further 16 perished at sea.
- An estimated 3.3 million people perished in the war, mainly through war-induced disease and famine.
- If they had left him he could have perished in the fire.
- While some manage the perilous crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar separating Spain from Morocco, many others perish trying.
Synonyms
die, lose one's life, be killed, fall, expire, meet one's death, be lost, lay down one's life, breathe one's last, draw one's last breath, pass away, go the way of all flesh, give up the ghost, go to glory, meet one's maker, go to one's last resting place, cross the great divide
1. 1.1 Suffer complete ruin or destruction.
  消亡，毁灭；被摧毁
  the old regime had to perish
  Example sentencesExamples
  How many beautiful friendships may perish prematurely because of people losing contact this way, as a result of some virus or other computer misfortune?
  Will it successfully resist or perish due to state repression?
  Her love for him, however, had slowly perished throughout the years of their marriage.
  The Republic will surely perish without a heroic effort from all of us.
  They hoped the ruling party could help save the paper from perishing.
  They are afraid that their party will perish as they risk losing the support of both the ‘deep blue’ and pro-localization factions.
  Empires and ideologies have triumphed, perished and fallen into oblivion through the centuries.
  He died in a shabby Roman hotel the year after that regime had perished.
  Much of the work from the silent era has perished or been lost to future generations.
  Synonyms
  come to an end, die, die away, be destroyed, cease to exist, disappear, vanish, fade, dissolve, evaporate, melt away, pass into oblivion, wither
2. 1.2 (of rubber, a foodstuff, or other organic substance) lose its normal qualities; rot or decay.
  （橡胶、食品或其他有机物质）老化，变质；腐烂，腐朽
  most domestic building was in wood and has perished
  大部分的住宅是木结构而且已腐朽了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Since you're looking for foods that don't perish too fast and can be eaten without silverware, I suggest plant-based foods for lunches.
  Except the dry leaves, they leave all vegetation to grow and perish in the field itself to enrich the soil.
  Oh, how foolish we are to labor for the bread that perishes.
  The tree's bright green foliage contrasted with the swing, whose wood had long perished, cut off from its source of life, and was now numb to the world.
  It's worth jacking the car up and having a look at the brake lines (which carry fluid to the brakes), in particular the flexible rubber hoses which can crack and perish.
  Some argue that organic fruit and vegetables perish quickly, but there's no need to waste food that has reached the end of its shelf life.
  Leaks due to cracked or perished rubber make accurate measurement of blood pressure difficult because the fall in mercury cannot be controlled.
  Synonyms
  go bad, go off, spoil, rot, go mouldy, moulder, putrefy, decay, decompose

Phrases

perish the thought

informal Used, often ironically, to show that one finds a suggestion or idea completely ridiculous or unwelcome.
〈非正式，常讽〉死了心吧
he wasn't out to get drunk—perish the thought!
他没有出去喝醉酒，死了心吧！
Example sentencesExamples
- Was I - after only a few days impersonating a political reporter - becoming, perish the thought, a tad cynical?
- We wouldn't take a brown envelope - perish the thought!
- Is there an automatic mechanism to correct the situation or, perish the thought, is the situation more pathological?
- But perish the thought that you should actually cut your pay.
- I wasn't unwell and there's no scandal, perish the thought.
- It's just possible - perish the thought - that not everything in the world can be analysed sociologically.
- Here, at last, we have one who seems, perish the thought, to be able to make up his own mind.
- We could, perish the thought, have something of equal proportions.
- Or even, perish the thought, an expenditure that need not have its results measured in dollars and cents, but as an altruistic good.
- So perhaps - perish the thought - they're not actually coming after all?

Origin

Middle English: from Old French periss-, lengthened stem of perir, from Latin perire ‘pass away’, from per- ‘through, completely’ + ire ‘go’.

单词	perish
释义	Definition of perish in English: perish verb ˈpɛrɪʃˈpɛrɪʃ [no object] 1literary Die, especially in a violent or sudden way. a great part of his army perished of hunger and disease 他的很大一部分军队死于饥饿和疾病。 Example sentencesExamples Forty-nine people were killed in the city and a further 16 perished at sea. By the end of the 1840s over one million Irish had perished from hunger and associated disease and another two million had emigrated to escape the misery. Malnourished children do not typically perish from hunger but when children are weak, common childhood ailments become killers. While some manage the perilous crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar separating Spain from Morocco, many others perish trying. But, in some cases, some of the people perished as a result of the flooding. A great many fishermen perished at sea, especially during the brutal winter season. An estimated 3.3 million people perished in the war, mainly through war-induced disease and famine. We found her boat, in pieces on the shore, and I thought she had perished in a violent storm crossing the ocean. Much of the army perished at the river, and most of the rest were captured. Her pet cat and dog also perished in the flames. Approximately 200,000 Irishmen served in World War 1 and over 60,000 perished in the conflict. The thousands who perished there certainly deserve the honour and the remembrance. More than 50 million soldiers and civilians perished in the Second World War. We believe at this time that the boy has probably perished in the crash. Unfortunately, all but eight perished in World War II. If they had left him he could have perished in the fire. The house was razed and both daughters, aged 4 and 6, perished in the blaze. Sixty-eight journalists were killed during World War II, while 38 perished in the Korean War. He and Lady Charlotte both tragically perished in a great fire at the temple today. They survived the unknown hardships of war, only to perish while travelling to a job most Irish people would now turn their noses up at. Synonyms die, lose one's life, be killed, fall, expire, meet one's death, be lost, lay down one's life, breathe one's last, draw one's last breath, pass away, go the way of all flesh, give up the ghost, go to glory, meet one's maker, go to one's last resting place, cross the great divide informal bite the dust, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, croak, flatline, turn up one's toes, shuffle off this mortal coil, go the way of the dinosaurs, conk out, buy it British informal snuff it, peg out, pop one's clogs, hop the twig/stick North American informal bite the big one, buy the farm, check out, hand in one's dinner pail Australian/New Zealand informal go bung literary exit archaic decease, depart this life 1.1 Suffer complete ruin or destruction. 消亡，毁灭；被摧毁 must these noble hopes perish so soon? Example sentencesExamples Much of the work from the silent era has perished or been lost to future generations. Will it successfully resist or perish due to state repression? How many beautiful friendships may perish prematurely because of people losing contact this way, as a result of some virus or other computer misfortune? He died in a shabby Roman hotel the year after that regime had perished. Her love for him, however, had slowly perished throughout the years of their marriage. Empires and ideologies have triumphed, perished and fallen into oblivion through the centuries. The Republic will surely perish without a heroic effort from all of us. They are afraid that their party will perish as they risk losing the support of both the ‘deep blue’ and pro-localization factions. They hoped the ruling party could help save the paper from perishing. Synonyms come to an end, die (away), be destroyed, cease to exist, disappear, vanish, fade, dissolve, evaporate, melt away, pass into oblivion, wither 2(of rubber, food, etc.) lose its normal qualities; rot or decay. （橡胶、食品或其他有机物质）老化，变质；腐烂，腐朽 an abandoned tyre whose rubber had perished Example sentencesExamples Since you're looking for foods that don't perish too fast and can be eaten without silverware, I suggest plant-based foods for lunches. Except the dry leaves, they leave all vegetation to grow and perish in the field itself to enrich the soil. Leaks due to cracked or perished rubber make accurate measurement of blood pressure difficult because the fall in mercury cannot be controlled. Oh, how foolish we are to labor for the bread that perishes. The tree's bright green foliage contrasted with the swing, whose wood had long perished, cut off from its source of life, and was now numb to the world. Some argue that organic fruit and vegetables perish quickly, but there's no need to waste food that has reached the end of its shelf life. It's worth jacking the car up and having a look at the brake lines (which carry fluid to the brakes), in particular the flexible rubber hoses which can crack and perish. Synonyms go bad, go off, spoil, rot, go mouldy, moulder, putrefy, decay, decompose deteriorate, disintegrate, fall apart, crumble 3be perishedBritish informal Be suffering from extreme cold. 〈英〉经受酷寒 I was perished with cold before the end of the day 我经常在天黑以前冻得浑身僵直。 Example sentencesExamples He was not imaginative enough to ask himself whether the man might not be perishing with cold and hunger. Phrases perish the thought informal Used, often ironically, to show that one finds a suggestion or idea completely ridiculous or unwelcome. 〈非正式，常讽〉死了心吧 he wasn't out to get drunk—perish the thought! 他没有出去喝醉酒，死了心吧！ Example sentencesExamples Or even, perish the thought, an expenditure that need not have its results measured in dollars and cents, but as an altruistic good. Was I - after only a few days impersonating a political reporter - becoming, perish the thought, a tad cynical? But perish the thought that you should actually cut your pay. Is there an automatic mechanism to correct the situation or, perish the thought, is the situation more pathological? Here, at last, we have one who seems, perish the thought, to be able to make up his own mind. It's just possible - perish the thought - that not everything in the world can be analysed sociologically. We could, perish the thought, have something of equal proportions. We wouldn't take a brown envelope - perish the thought! So perhaps - perish the thought - they're not actually coming after all? I wasn't unwell and there's no scandal, perish the thought. Origin Middle English: from Old French periss-, lengthened stem of perir, from Latin perire 'pass away', from per- 'through, completely' + ire 'go'. To perish is literally to ‘pass away’ or ‘go away’—that is the meaning of the source, Latin perire, formed from per- ‘through, completely’ and ire ‘go’. A mischievous or awkward person, especially a child, has been a perisher since the end of the 19th century. For many the word is particularly associated with the comic strip The Perishers, about a group of children and their sheepdog Boot, which ran in the Daily Mirror newspaper from 1958 to 2006. Shakespeare's plays have not always been popular. From the later 17th century people preferred them in updated form, often with wholly inappropriate happy endings. In 1700 the English comic actor, dramatist, and theatre manager Colley Cibber brought out a rewritten version of Shakespeare's Richard III. Its only claim to fame is that it gave English perish the thought. Rhymes cherish verb.1 phr. Definition of perish in US English: perish verbˈpɛrɪʃˈperiSH [no object] 1Suffer death, typically in a violent, sudden, or untimely way. 死亡（尤指暴死、猝死、夭折） a great part of his army perished of hunger and disease 他的很大一部分军队死于饥饿和疾病。 Example sentencesExamples He and Lady Charlotte both tragically perished in a great fire at the temple today. They survived the unknown hardships of war, only to perish while travelling to a job most Irish people would now turn their noses up at. Her pet cat and dog also perished in the flames. We found her boat, in pieces on the shore, and I thought she had perished in a violent storm crossing the ocean. The thousands who perished there certainly deserve the honour and the remembrance. We believe at this time that the boy has probably perished in the crash. Unfortunately, all but eight perished in World War II. Much of the army perished at the river, and most of the rest were captured. The house was razed and both daughters, aged 4 and 6, perished in the blaze. But, in some cases, some of the people perished as a result of the flooding. By the end of the 1840s over one million Irish had perished from hunger and associated disease and another two million had emigrated to escape the misery. A great many fishermen perished at sea, especially during the brutal winter season. Sixty-eight journalists were killed during World War II, while 38 perished in the Korean War. More than 50 million soldiers and civilians perished in the Second World War. Approximately 200,000 Irishmen served in World War 1 and over 60,000 perished in the conflict. Malnourished children do not typically perish from hunger but when children are weak, common childhood ailments become killers. Forty-nine people were killed in the city and a further 16 perished at sea. An estimated 3.3 million people perished in the war, mainly through war-induced disease and famine. If they had left him he could have perished in the fire. While some manage the perilous crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar separating Spain from Morocco, many others perish trying. Synonyms die, lose one's life, be killed, fall, expire, meet one's death, be lost, lay down one's life, breathe one's last, draw one's last breath, pass away, go the way of all flesh, give up the ghost, go to glory, meet one's maker, go to one's last resting place, cross the great divide 1.1 Suffer complete ruin or destruction. 消亡，毁灭；被摧毁 the old regime had to perish Example sentencesExamples How many beautiful friendships may perish prematurely because of people losing contact this way, as a result of some virus or other computer misfortune? Will it successfully resist or perish due to state repression? Her love for him, however, had slowly perished throughout the years of their marriage. The Republic will surely perish without a heroic effort from all of us. They hoped the ruling party could help save the paper from perishing. They are afraid that their party will perish as they risk losing the support of both the ‘deep blue’ and pro-localization factions. Empires and ideologies have triumphed, perished and fallen into oblivion through the centuries. He died in a shabby Roman hotel the year after that regime had perished. Much of the work from the silent era has perished or been lost to future generations. Synonyms come to an end, die, die away, be destroyed, cease to exist, disappear, vanish, fade, dissolve, evaporate, melt away, pass into oblivion, wither 1.2 (of rubber, a foodstuff, or other organic substance) lose its normal qualities; rot or decay. （橡胶、食品或其他有机物质）老化，变质；腐烂，腐朽 most domestic building was in wood and has perished 大部分的住宅是木结构而且已腐朽了。 Example sentencesExamples Since you're looking for foods that don't perish too fast and can be eaten without silverware, I suggest plant-based foods for lunches. Except the dry leaves, they leave all vegetation to grow and perish in the field itself to enrich the soil. Oh, how foolish we are to labor for the bread that perishes. The tree's bright green foliage contrasted with the swing, whose wood had long perished, cut off from its source of life, and was now numb to the world. It's worth jacking the car up and having a look at the brake lines (which carry fluid to the brakes), in particular the flexible rubber hoses which can crack and perish. Some argue that organic fruit and vegetables perish quickly, but there's no need to waste food that has reached the end of its shelf life. Leaks due to cracked or perished rubber make accurate measurement of blood pressure difficult because the fall in mercury cannot be controlled. Synonyms go bad, go off, spoil, rot, go mouldy, moulder, putrefy, decay, decompose Phrases perish the thought informal Used, often ironically, to show that one finds a suggestion or idea completely ridiculous or unwelcome. 〈非正式，常讽〉死了心吧 he wasn't out to get drunk—perish the thought! 他没有出去喝醉酒，死了心吧！ Example sentencesExamples Was I - after only a few days impersonating a political reporter - becoming, perish the thought, a tad cynical? We wouldn't take a brown envelope - perish the thought! Is there an automatic mechanism to correct the situation or, perish the thought, is the situation more pathological? But perish the thought that you should actually cut your pay. I wasn't unwell and there's no scandal, perish the thought. It's just possible - perish the thought - that not everything in the world can be analysed sociologically. Here, at last, we have one who seems, perish the thought, to be able to make up his own mind. We could, perish the thought, have something of equal proportions. Or even, perish the thought, an expenditure that need not have its results measured in dollars and cents, but as an altruistic good. So perhaps - perish the thought - they're not actually coming after all? Origin Middle English: from Old French periss-, lengthened stem of perir, from Latin perire ‘pass away’, from per- ‘through, completely’ + ire ‘go’. verb.1 phr.
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