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单词 perish
释义

perish

/ˈpɛrɪʃ /
verb [no object]
1 literary Die, especially in a violent or sudden way: a great part of his army perished of hunger and disease...
  • 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.
  • Malnourished children do not typically perish from hunger but when children are weak, common childhood ailments become killers.

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
1.1Suffer complete ruin or destruction: must these noble hopes perish so soon?...
  • He died in a shabby Roman hotel the year after that regime had perished.
  • They hoped the ruling party could help save the paper from perishing.
  • Will it successfully resist or perish due to state repression?

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: an abandoned tyre whose rubber had perished...
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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;
deteriorate, disintegrate, fall apart, crumble
3 (be perished) British informal Be suffering from extreme cold: I was perished with cold before the end of the day...
  • He was not imaginative enough to ask himself whether the man might not be perishing with cold and hunger.

Phrases

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.

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