perish

perish is a 6-letter English word with 3 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
2. transitive verb. To cause perish.
3. verb. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

   "She died from cancer"

   "The children perished in the fire"

   Synonyms: choke, conk, croak, decease, die, exit, expire, go, pass

Synonyms

choke, conk, croak, decease, die, exit, expire, go, pass

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in perish:

pisher, reship, seriph

Common word forms

perished, perisher, perishes, perishing, perishable, perishless, perishment

Words from these letters

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