PERISHING meaning: Ceasing to exist; dying out

We found 20 dictionaries that define the word perishing:

General (16 matching dictionaries)

perishing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
perishing: Merriam-Webster
perishing: Collins English Dictionary
perishing: Vocabulary.com
Perishing: Wordnik
perishing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
perishing: Wiktionary
perishing: Infoplease Dictionary
Perishing, perishing: Dictionary.com
perishing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Perishing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
perishing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
perishing: FreeDictionary.org
perishing: TheFreeDictionary.com
perishing: Wordnik

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perishing: Legal dictionary

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perishing: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

perishing: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
Perishing: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Extremely cold.
▸ adjective:  Extreme; used of environmental or bodily conditions.
▸ noun:  The act of something that perishes; decay or destruction.

Similar:

expire, pass away, decease, exit, go, die, supercold, freezing cold, freezing, ultracold, more...

Opposite:

persisting, persistence

Types:

dying, decaying, rotting, fading, wilting, dessicating, mummifying, more...

Adjectives:

perpetual, daily, near, nigh, many, precious, own, utter, slow, non, poor

Colors:

black, gray, charcoal, onyx, obsidian, more...

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