Word "PERISH" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Synonyms:
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
Examples:
The children perished in the fire

Crossword Clues for PERISH

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Suffer ruin Universal 21 Aug 2025
Decay, rot (6) Mirror Classic 01 Aug 2025
Decay and disappear
Wither, die (6)
"Publish" alternative, in academia
The trapper is hoping to die inside! (6)
Cease to exist Family Time 31 Mar 2025
To die or to rot (6)
Decay (6) The Guardian Quick 12 Mar 2025
Die off Commuter 11 Mar 2025
The Queen in a sinking ship could die (6)
Ingredient of supper is hard to break down (6)
Expire Mirror Quick 24 Jan 2025
Quiet fairy started to go bad Mirror Cryptic 24 Jan 2025
Shuffle off this mortal coil (6)
To meet one's end (6)
Thus to die would be snaky after six (6)
Meet an untimely end The Times Concise 30 Nov 2024
By one? Don't talk rot! (6)
She got into the rip and had to die
Die from cold or hunger (6)
Suffer death or ruin (6)
"__ the thought!" Newsday 17 Oct 2024
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not ___ from the Earth": Abraham Lincoln (6)
Cease to exist Family Time 23 Sep 2024
RIP, she wrote when about to die (6)
Without the West, the whisper might die away (6)
Retired agent is first of heroes to die
Die and the various heirs come to power (6)
Fade away Thomas Joseph 13 Aug 2024
Become destroyed
Be killed (6)
To rot (6)
Stop here essentially in ship at sea (6)
Lose one's life (6)
Expire USA Today 31 Mar 2024
Were Vi thus to pass completely away. she'd be snaky (6)
Lose life (6)
Die in a shipwreck coming back again (6)
Disintegrate The Guardian Quick 05 Mar 2024
...the thought (may it never be) (6)
Die a bit of a hero in a shipwreck (6)
Rot from Piers, drunken husband The Sun Two Speed 10 Jan 2024
Expire or die The Sun Two Speed 10 Jan 2024
Meet an untimely end The Times Concise 20 Dec 2023
Bit of copper is hard to pass away (6)
Rot Wall Street Journal 25 Nov 2023
Fairy's husband to pass away The Times Quick Cryptic 05 Oct 2023
Suffer ruin Premier Sunday 19 Feb 2023
Some hope Rishi'll disappear The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Dec 2022
Expire The Telegraph Quick 10 Nov 2022
Expire Family Time 22 Aug 2022
Fade away Thomas Joseph 16 Aug 2022
Go bad, as unrefrigerated vegetables Family Time 22 Jul 2022
Cease to exist Family Time 17 Apr 2022
Come to an end New York Times 28 Dec 2021
'___ the thought!' USA Today 22 Dec 2021
Disappear LA Times Daily 27 Apr 2021
Disappear The Washington Post 27 Apr 2021
Expire The Telegraph Quick 29 Oct 2020
Fall, for every one's hard
Waste away USA Today 07 Sep 2020
'___ the thought!' USA Today 26 Mar 2020
Express contempt over first couple of errors, and depart
'... shall not __ from the earth': Lincoln The Washington Post 20 Jan 2019
"... shall not __ from the earth": Lincoln LA Times Daily 20 Jan 2019
Pass on New York Times 12 Jan 2019
Monarch in transport ship finds rot The Sun Two Speed 03 Jan 2019
Pass on
"... shall not __ from the earth": Lincoln
Expire or die The Sun Two Speed 26 Dec 2018
Rot from Piers, crazy husband The Sun Two Speed 26 Dec 2018
Fade away Thomas Joseph 08 Dec 2018
Pass away – for each is, primarily, human
Meet with ruin The New Yorker 15 Oct 2018
'Publish or ___' The Chronicle of Higher Education 05 Oct 2018
To die from contents of hamper is horrendous
Die; decay The Times Concise 24 May 2018
Suffer complete ruin or destruction Irish Times Simplex 21 Apr 2018
Give up the ghost parking - it's an eye-opener to Trim people locally Irish Times Crosaire 16 Mar 2018
"Publish or ___"
Depart for everyone's high
"Publish or ___" (academic caveat) USA Today 12 Aug 2017
Die New York Times 20 Jun 2017
Rot, die The Telegraph Quick 28 Mar 2017
Last verb in the Gettysburg Address The Washington Post 19 Mar 2017
Last verb in the Gettysburg Address LA Times Daily 19 Mar 2017
'... shall not ___ from the earth': Gettysburg Address New York Times 22 Feb 2017
"... shall not ___ from the earth": Gettysburg Address
"Publish or ___" (academic caveat)
Pass by one with Sherlock Holmes initially
Die
Pass away Irish Times Simplex 16 Nov 2016
Die; rot The Times Concise 28 Oct 2016
Last verb in the Gettysburg Address Newsday 11 Mar 2016
Publish's alternative, in academia The Washington Post 23 Jan 2016
'___ the thought!' The Washington Post 12 Dec 2015
Cross the great divide to exercise leaderless Irish Irish Times Crosaire 24 Sep 2015
Decay as a result of unusual rise in pH
"___ the thought!"
"__ the thought!"
Cease to be
"___ the thought!"
Bite the dust
Disappear forever
Expire
Disappear
Meet one's demise
Disappear
Be destroyed
Be destroyed
Suffer ruin
Be wiped out
Pass on
Expire
Alternative to publish
Be totally destroyed
Be totally destroyed
Be totally destroyed
Meet an untimely fate
" ___ the thought!"
Disappear forever
Meet an untimely fate
"... shall not ___ from ...": Lincoln
"_____ the thought!"
"-- the thought!"
Cease to be
". . . shall not __ from the earth"
Publish alternative, on campus
Fade away
____ the thought!
"___ the thought!"
Anagram of reship
Expire
"Publish or ___" (caveat to profs)
Pass away.
Succumb.
___ the thought!
Die.
Be destroyed.
End.
Be utterly ruined.
Come to nothing.
Be destroyed New York Times 15 Feb 1942
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