| 单词 | perish |
| 释义 | perish (once / 180 pages) v Perish means to die, but it suggests a slow, gradual, nonviolent death. Starving to death is perishing. Getting hit by a bus is just plain getting killed. Perish is the kind of word you can imagine being spoken by a helpless princess in a fairy tale or any other damsel in distress––"If I am not rescued soon by my valiant knight," she might say, "I shall perish if I'm left alone up here in this tower to starve." WORD FAMILYperish: perishable, perished, perisher, perishes, perishing+/imperishable: imperishability, imperishableness, imperishably/perishable: imperishable, perishability, perishableness, perishables, perishably/perisher: perishers USAGE EXAMPLESAll 27 other passengers and crew aboard perished. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) The most desperate set off in ramshackle fishing boats for Thailand and Malaysia, many perishing in the Bay of Bengal. Los Angeles Times(Dec 24, 2016) By the turn of the 19th century, Christmas looked close to perishing. Wall Street Journal(Dec 23, 2016) v pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life The children perished in the fire Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, pop off, snuff it break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad stop operating or functioning diesuffer or face the pain of death be born come into existence through birth abort cease development, die, and be aborted asphyxiate, stifle, suffocatebe asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen buy it, pip outbe killed or die; drowndie from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating predeceasedie before; die earlier than famish, starvedie of food deprivation falldie, as in battle or in a hunt succumb, yieldbe fatally overwhelmed strangledie from strangulation change state, turn undergo a transformation or a change of position or action |
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