Word Meanings - PERISHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of perishing. Udall.

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• PERISHMENT
  The act of perishing. Udall.
• PERISHABILITY
  Perishableness.
• PERISHABLE
  Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or death; as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies.
• PERISHABLENESS
  The quality or state of being perishable; liability to decay or destruction. Locke.
• PERISHABLY
  In a perishable degree or manner.
• PERISH
  To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away. I perish with hunger! Luke xv. 17. Grow up and perish, as the summer fly. Milton. The thoughts of a soul that perish in thinking. Locke. (more
• EMPERISHED
  Perished; decayed. I deem thy brain emperished be. Spenser.
• VIPERISH
  Somewhat like a viper; viperous.
• COPPERISH
  Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.
• IMPERISHABILITY
  The quality of being imperishable: indstructibility. "The imperishability of the universe." Milman.
• FEUDALLY
  In a feudal manner.
• UNPERISHABLE
  Imperishable.
• IMPERISHABLE
  Not perisha ble; not subject to decay; indestructible; enduringpermanently; as, an imperishable monument; imperishable renown. -- Im*per"ish*a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*per"ish*a*bly, adv.
• UNPERISHABLY
  Imperishably.