perishingadjective
uk/ˈper.ɪ.ʃɪŋ/us/ˈper.ɪ.ʃɪŋ/perishing adjective (COLD)
UK informal extremely cold:
Wear your coat, it's perishing out there!
He's out there in the perishing cold.
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Cold
- be (as) cold as ice idiom
- bitter
- bitterly
- bone-chilling
- chill
- cooling
- freeze
- freezing
- frigid
- frigid zone
- frostbite
- ice-cold
- icy
- nip
- nuclear winter
- occluded front
- perished
- raw
- stone-cold
- windchill
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perishing adjective (ANNOYED)
old-fashioned used to show your anger about something:
Now I've gone and lost my perishing keys!
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Annoying
- accursed
- aggravating
- annoying
- bothersome
- contrariness
- exasperating
- galling
- incendiary
- inflammatory
- infuriating
- insufferable
- interfering
- limit
- maddening
- niggle
- pesky
- pisser
- provocative
- vexatious
- vexing
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