perish

Betekenis (English)

1. To decay and disappear; to waste away to nothing.
2. To decay in such a way that it cannot be used for its original purpose
3. To die; to cease to live.
4. (obsolete) To cause to perish.

Synonyms

die

💀

pass away

expire

decease

kick the bucket

croak

disappear

conk

buy the farm

fall

vanish

go

snuff it

be destroyed

peg out

decay

exit

be lost

check out

die out

pass

breathe one’s last

demise

lost

cash in one’s chips

drop dead

sink

sniff it

be ruined

pop off

lose

choke

depart

succumb

waste away

destroy

destroyed

pass on

give-up the ghost

cease to exist

ruin

wane

be killed

ring down the curtain

become extinct

spoil

cringe

go to meet ones maker

join the choir invisible

decline

give up the ghost

go under

wreck

fade away

fade

dead

💀

cease to be

end

🔚

wite

be big

be dissipated

be extinct

become dust

be completely lost

pass by

beat it

be exhausted

benumb

bite the dust

cease

collapse

corrupt

crumble

decamp

deconstruction

deteriorate

diminished

drop

drown

eddy

escape

exterminate

fail

finish

forfeit

go around

go out

go to hell

lose out

loss

make off

abscond

pine

push off

ripple

roll over

ruined

scarper

slink

smash

squander

suffer

sunk

terminate

thirsty

totter

underlie

weaken

wither

be annihilated

be extinguished

be finished

depart from life

fall dead

go to rack and ruin

stop living

be dead

come to nought

be seriously ill

death

💀

waste

be uprooted

Gekoppel as

per‧ish

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈpɛɹɪʃ/

Etimologie (English)

Inherited from Middle English: perishen

In summary

From Middle English perishen, borrowed from Old French perir (via the stem periss- used in various conjugations), from Latin perīre (“pass away, perish”), from per (“through”) + īre (“pass, go”).