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verb
To decay and disappear; to waste away to nothing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To decay in such a way that it cannot be used for its original purpose
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To die; to cease to live.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: decease, pass away, assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be like the the One, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord, bite the big one, bite the biscuit, bite the dust, buy the farm, buy it, cark it, cash in, cash in one's chips, check out, close one's eyes for the last time, code, conk out, croak, cross over, cross the Great Divide, cross the Styx, darken, decompose, dematerialize, depart, disincarnate, draw one's last breath, drop off the hooks, exit, expire, fall off the twig, flatline, forfare, give one's all, give up the ghost, go for a burton, go out, go over to the majority, go the way of all flesh, go the way of the dinosaurs, go the way of the dodo, go the way of the dodo bird, go to glory, go to one's reward, go west, hand in one's checks, hand in one's dinner pail, hop the twig, join the choir invisible, keel over, kick the bucket, kick off, knock off, liquidate, lose the number of one's mess, meet one's doom, meet one's end, meet one's maker, pass, pass in one's checks, pass in one's marble, pass on, pass over, pass the river, pay nature's debt, pay the debt of nature, peg out, perish, pop off, pop one's clogs, push up daisies, shuffle off this mortal coil, sink, sleep with one's fathers, slip away, snuff it, succumb, take a dirt nap, turn up one's toes, yield up the ghost
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To cause to perish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: die, decease, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change state, turn
Narrower terms: abort, suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, buy it, pip out, drown, predecease, starve, famish, fall, succumb, yield
History
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”).
Across languages
134 source translations are retained for this English entry.
