perish

Verb

Verb Forms: perished, perishing, perishes

• To die, especially in a violent or sudden way.
• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
  • "The children perished in the fire"
• To decay and disappear; to waste away to nothing.
• To decay in such a way that it cannot be used for its original purpose
• To die; to cease to live.
• To cause to perish.

Examples

• If you fail to play a word, your turn will PERISH, and you lose points.

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, assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord, bite the big one, bite the biscuit, bite the dust, buy it, cark it, cash in, check out, close one's eyes for the last time, code, conk out, cross over, cross rainbow bridge, cross the Great Divide, cross the Styx, decompose, dematerialize, depart, disincarnate, draw one's last breath, drop off the hooks, flatline, forfare, get to be like the one, give one's all, give up the ghost, go for a burton, go gentle into that good night, 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 off, knock off, liquidate, lose my life for Jesus Christ, lose the number of one's mess, meet one's doom, meet one's end, meet one's maker, 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 one's clogs, shuffle off this mortal coil, sink, sleep with one's fathers, slip away, succumb, take a dirt nap, turn up one's toes, yield up the ghost

Antonyms

be born

Related Words

perishable