单词	perish
释义	perishper‧ish /ˈperɪʃ/ verb Word Origin WORD ORIGINperish Origin: 1200-1300 Old French perir, from Latin perire ‘to be destroyed’ Verb Table VERB TABLE perish Simple Form Present I, you, we, they perish he, she, it perishes Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they perished Present perfect I, you, we, they have perished he, she, it has perished Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had perished Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will perish Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have perished Continuous Form Present I am perishing he, she, it is perishing you, we, they are perishing Past I, he, she, it was perishing you, we, they were perishing Present perfect I, you, we, they have been perishing he, she, it has been perishing Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been perishing Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be perishing Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been perishing Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Everyone aboard the ship perished when it sank off the coast of Maine. Five children perished before firefighters could put out the blaze. Sanchez perished in a mudslide in 1985. We must make sure that democracy does not perish. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS All of us would have perished of exposure and hunger had we not recaptured our ponies. But by far the majority perish, before they are even hatched - or at least before they reach maturity and breed themselves. But in 1691 the boy was reported to have fallen accidentally from a second-story window and perished. Even so, 10,000-20,000 birds have perished. He is believed to have perished fairly early in the prolonged series of guerrilla activities he inaugurated against Rome. Most domestic building was in wood and has perished, but some of the great mural fortresses survive. Sandy Lee Gilmore perished in the early morning blaze at her terraced home on the Drumtara estate. Thesaurus THESAURUS► die to stop being alive, as a result of old age or illness: · I want to see Ireland again before I die.· No wonder your plants always die – you don’t water them enough.· His son died of liver cancer three years ago. ► pass away to die – used when you want to avoid using the word ‘die’, in order to show respect or to avoid upsetting someone: · My wife had just passed away, and I didn’t want to be around people. ► pass on to pass away – use this especially when you believe that the soul has a life after the death of the body: · I’m sorry, Emily, but your mother has passed on. ► lose your life to be killed in a terrible event: · Hundreds of people lost their lives when the ship overturned in a storm. ► perish literary to die in a terrible event – used especially in literature and news reports: · Five children perished before firefighters could put out the blaze. ► give your life/lay down your life formal to die in order to save someone, or because of something that you believe in: · We honor the men and women who have given their lives in service of their country. ► drop dead informal to suddenly die, when people do not expect you to: · One day, he came home from work and dropped dead of a heart attack. ► kick the bucket/pop your clogs British English, buy the farm American English informal to die – used when you are not talking seriously about death: · It’s not like I’m going to kick the bucket tomorrow. Longman Language Activatorto die in an accident, war, fight etc► die/be killed · The firefighters died when the warehouse floor collapsed.die/be killed in an accident/explosion/the war etc · Two people were killed and four injured in a gas explosion this morning.die/be killed in action (=be killed in a war) · His brother was killed in action in Vietnam. ► to death : starve/freeze/bleed etc to death to die because of having no food, being too cold, losing blood etc: · The baby starved to death.· He bled to death after being stabbed repeatedly. ► lose your life to be killed in a terrible event - used especially in news reports and descriptions of past events: · Hundreds of people lost their lives when the ship overturned in a storm.· Supporters continue to visit the site where Colosio lost his life to an assassin's bullet. ► come to a sticky end British informal to die in a violent or unpleasant way - use this especially when you think the person who died deserved this: · At the end of the film the prisoners are rescued, and the pirates come to a sticky end. ► perish to die in a terrible event - used especially in literature and news reports: · Everyone aboard the ship perished when it sank off the coast of Maine.· Five children perished before firefighters could put out the blaze. ► suffer heavy losses if a military force suffers heavy losses , a very large number of its soldiers die while fighting: · US forces withdrew after suffering heavy losses.· The troops suffered heavy losses fighting their way through the Italian countryside. WORD SETS► Death asphyxia, nounautopsy, nounbarrow, nounbequeath, verbbereaved, adjectivebereavement, nounbier, nounbody bag, nounbody count, nounburial, nounbury, verbcasket, nouncatacomb, nouncatafalque, nouncemetery, nouncenotaph, nouncharnel house, nounchurchyard, nouncoffin, nouncommittal, nouncondolence, nouncoroner, nouncorpse, nouncortege, nouncot death, nouncremate, verbcrematorium, nouncrib death, nouncrucifixion, nouncrucify, verbcrypt, noundeath mask, noundemise, noundeparted, adjectiveD.O.A., adjectivedrown, verbembalm, verbend, nounepitaph, nouneulogy, nounexhume, verbexpire, verbfatality, nounfuneral, nounfunerary, adjectivefunereal, adjectivegrave, noungravedigger, noungravestone, noungraveyard, nounheadstone, nounhearse, nounhospice, nouninter, verbinterment, nounmausoleum, nounmorgue, nounmortality, nounmortician, nounmortuary, nounmortuary, adjectivemourner, nounmourning, nounmummify, verbmummy, nounnecrophilia, nounobsequies, nounpall, nounpallbearer, nounpassing, nounperish, verbplot, nounprobate, nounprobate, verbpyre, nounquietus, nounremains, nounrest, verbrigor mortis, nounRIP, rise, verbsarcophagus, nounsepulchre, nounshroud, nounthrenody, nountoll, nountomb, nountombstone, nountumulus, nounundertaker, nounundertaking, nounurn, nounvault, nounwake, nounwar memorial, nounwill, nounwinding sheet, nounwreath, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► people · But the prophet says where there is no vision the people perish.· In Charleston, where people would rather perish. than seek professional counseling, she was a godsend.· Where there is television, there also must be vision, or the people perish.· Machines function. People either perish or prevail.· Without it, it is not an exaggeration to fear that the people will perish.· The prophet was right when he said that without a vision the people perish.· Fire broke out in an old, litter-strewn stand which soon became a death trap in which fifty-six people perished. ► thought · In Soho, perish the thought?· Not at all, Watson, perish the thought!· Not that she wanted him to contact her - perish the thought! 1[intransitive] formal or literary to die, especially in a terrible or sudden way:  Hundreds perished when the ship went down.► see thesaurus at die2[intransitive, transitive] especially British English if rubber or leather perishes, it decays3perish the thought! spoken old-fashioned used to say that you hope what someone has suggested will never happen:  If we lose, perish the thought, Watford will take first place.
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