perish – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to perish
Participle: perished
Gerund: perishing

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	perish
we	Let's perish
you	perish

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to stop living; to become dead

auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be no more, bite the big one, bite the biscuit, bite the dust, buy it, buy the farm, cark it, cash in, cash in one's chips, check out, conk out, croak, cross the Great Divide, cross the Styx, decease, depart, disincarnate, draw one's last breath, exit, expire, flatline, forfare, give one's all, give up the ghost, go for a burton, go gentle into that good night, go the way of all flesh, go the way of the dinosaurs, go the way of the dodo, go to glory, go to one's reward, hand in one's dinner pail, hop the twig, join the choir invisible, keel over, kick the bucket, knock off, lose one's life, lose the number of one's mess, meet one's doom, meet one's end, meet one's maker, pass, pass away, pass in one's marble, pass on, pass over, pass the river, pay the debt of nature, peg out, pop off, pop one's clogs, shuffle off this mortal coil, sleep with one's fathers, slip away, snuff it, succumb, take a dirt nap, die, turn up one's toes, yield up the ghost

die

decease, depart, expire

Antonyms

die

live, exist, originate, develop

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1250, from periss- prp. stem of O.Fr. perir, from L. perire "to be lost, perish," lit. "to go through," from per- "through, completely, to destruction" + ire "to go." Perishables in ref. to foodstuffs is attested from 1895.
2. 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”). See: Old French 'perir', Latin 'pereo'.

Verbs referencing "perish"

Esperanto perei, Ido perisar.

Sample Sentences