

Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023 See More The OED says of fit: ' A sudden seizure of any malady attended with loss of consciousness and power of motion, or with convulsions, as fainting, hysteria, apoplexy. 2023 Kill or be killed, win the throne or serve as vassal, sleep under your own roof or perish in the forest: No show has a darker heart. Perish is a literary word for die but though we use die of (a cause), perish of is rare: the British National Corpus has 204 instances of perished, but only two of perished of. See here, the definitions of the word perished, as video and text.(Click show more below.)perished (verb) Simple past tense and past participle of perish. 2023 By that time, half of the group had already perished on Cheynes Beach near Albany, in southern Western Australia. Dictionary entry details PERISH (verb) Conjugation: Present simple: I / you / we / they perish. Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense perishes, present participle perishing, past tense, past participle perished. 2023 The teams are trying not only to stop deaths, but to save brain cells that can perish within minutes of oxygen deprivation. Vogue, 17 July 2023 Unfortunately, the second helicopter crashed and, tragically, all three members perished. Synonyms for PERISHED: departed, vanished, lost, extinct, dead, absent, lacking, nonexistent Antonyms of PERISHED: present, alive, active, existent, thriving. 2023 When their parents perish in a fire, the precocious Baudelaire siblings are forced to move into a captivating, gothic mansion with their very distant relative, Count Olaf (and who doesn’t love a story about orphan children). 2023 Nearly 100 people died in India this June as a result of higher-than-usual temperatures, the AP reported, while local news agencies said 15 people perished over the weekend in sweltering heat that engulfed Japan and South Korea. 2023 Khara Khota, Mongolia This ancient city in the Gobi Desert is believed to be haunted by the many former citizens that perished in the 14th century during a siege and slaughter by a rival army. Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 3 British : to slowly break apart by a natural process The rubber will perish with age. Many ancient languages have perished over time. 2 formal : to disappear or be destroyed : to cease to exist The civilization perished after 500 years. Send us feedback about these examples.Recent Examples on the Web An 11-year-old girl who has undergone 60 surgeries after being shot seven times in Uvalde - and witnessed her classmates and teachers perish in front of her - is one of its first beneficiaries. 1 formal + literary : to die or be killed Two people perished in the fire. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'crappy.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2023 Buying a crappy split can leave you stranded deep in the backcountry. 2021 Ben Stiller took her crappy home movies and made them Into something people would watch. Generally, whoever owns the goods is responsible for them, meaning parties. 2023 Stop paying $20 for a crappy umbrella from the nearby bodega whenever you're caught in a sudden thunderstorm. Perishing goods affect sales contracts in different ways, depending on at what point the goods become unfit for sale. Women's Health, 6 June 2023 Region locking is just a crappy holdover from the DVD era. Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2023 My daily habits caused about 40 to 50 pounds of weight gain, a crappy mood, and stagnant energy. Jack Fowler, National Review, 20 July 2023 All this crappy weather may have impacts on your greenhouse plants too, because insects may not be doing their thing.

2023 Shapiro, who buckled to teacher-union demands by deep-sixing his campaign-promise support for school choice Lifeline Scholarships, may yet be forced to make the budget a vehicle for enacting this profound education-reform program that would benefit thousands of kids trapped in crappy schools. Recent Examples on the Web More nonsense, like Ebert’s extolling of the crappy feminist serial-killer flick Monster.
