perishing
adjective
[ ˈpɛrɪʃɪŋ ]
• used for emphasis or to express annoyance.
• "I could murder that perishing kid!"
• extremely cold.
• "it's perishing in the tent"
perish
verb
• die, especially in a violent or sudden way.
• "a great part of his army perished of hunger and disease"
Similar:
die,
lose one's life,
be killed,
fall,
expire,
meet one's death,
be lost,
lay down one's life,
breathe one's last,
draw one's last breath,
pass away,
go the way of all flesh,
give up the ghost,
go to glory,
meet one's maker,
go to one's last resting place,
cross the great divide,
bite the dust,
kick the bucket,
cash in one's chips,
croak,
flatline,
turn up one's toes,
shuffle off this mortal coil,
go the way of the dinosaurs,
conk out,
buy it,
snuff it,
peg out,
pop one's clogs,
hop the twig/stick,
bite the big one,
buy the farm,
check out,
hand in one's dinner pail,
go bung,
exit,
decease,
depart this life,
• (of rubber, food, etc.) lose its normal qualities; rot or decay.
• "an abandoned tyre whose rubber had perished"
Similar:
go bad,
go off,
spoil,
rot,
go mouldy,
moulder,
putrefy,
decay,
decompose,
deteriorate,
disintegrate,
fall apart,
crumble,
• be suffering from extreme cold.
• "I was perished with cold before the end of the day"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French periss-, lengthened stem of perir, from Latin perire ‘pass away’, from per- ‘through, completely’ + ire ‘go’.
