perire
Meaning
- (intransitive, literary) to die, perish
- (intransitive, literary) to waste away, perish (of inanimate objects)
- (figuratively, intransitive, literary) to end, to cease
- (archaic, transitive) to kill, to destroy, to ruin
Concepts
cash in one’s chips
give-up the ghost
cease to be
go to meet ones maker
Synonyms
Translations
périr
perecer
perecer
schlecht werden
perir das Zeitliche segnen dahinscheidenFrequency
Hyphenated as
pe‧rì‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/peˈri.re/
Etymology
From Latin perīre (“vanish, die”).
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