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Showing words for PERISHING using the English dictionary

9 Letter Words for Perishing

perishing

8 Letter Words for Perishing

seringhi, speiring, sphering, spiering

7 Letter Words for Perishing

gipsire, heiring, hesping, hingers, hirings, inspire, persing, phesing, pigsnie, pingers, pirnies, pishing, presign, risping, shinier, siering, snipier, spinier, spiring, springe

6 Letter Words for Perishing

genips, gipsen, gipser, girnie, gispin, greins, gripes, griphe, hieing, hinger, hinges, hiring, inship, neighs, nigers, nigher, perish, pernis, pieing, pieris, pinger, pinier, pinies, pirnie, reigns, renigs, renish, repins, reship, resigh, resign, resing, respin, rhines, ripens, riping, rising, sering, seriph, shiner, shrine, sigher, signer, singer, siping, siring, sniper, spreng, spring

5 Letter Words for Perishing

ehing, epris, ering, eshin, genii, genip, gerip, giher, ginep, giris, girns, girse, girsh, grein, grens, grins, gripe, griph, grips, heirs, herns, hinge, hings, hiper, hiren, hires, hirse, hsien, ignis, inger, insep, iring, irish, neigh, niger, nighs, niris, nisei, peghs, penis, peris, perns, phies, phren, piers, piing, piner, pines, pinge, pings, pirns, pries, prigs, prine, regin, reign, reins, renig, repin, resin, rhein, rhies, rhine, rines, ringe, rings, rinse, ripen, ripes, risen, rishi, segni, sengi, serin, sheng, shier, shine, shire, shrip, singe, singh, siper, siren, sirih, snerp, snipe, speir, spier, spine, spire, sprig

4 Letter Words for Perishing

eigh, engr, engs, ergs, erin, eris, erns, ersh, gein, geir, gens, gers, gien, gies, gins, gire, giri, girn, gise, gish, gren, grin, grip, gris, heii, heir, heng, hens, heps, hern, herp, hers, hesp, hies, higi, hine, hing, hins, hipe, hips, hire, hisn, insp, ipse, ires, iris, irpe, negs, neps, nesh, nies, nigh, nips, nisi, pegh, pegs, pehs, peng, peni, pens, perh, peri, pern, pers, phis, pien, pier, pies, pigs, pine, ping, pins, pirn, pirs, pise, pish, pres, prie, prig, prin, psig, regs, rehs, rein, reps, resp, rgen, ries, rigs, rine, ring, rins, ripe, rips, rise, risp, seir, sepg, sepn, serg, sher, shin, ship, shir, shri, sien, sier, sigh, sign, sine, sing, sinh, sipe, sire, siri, snig, snip, spie, spig, spin

3 Letter Words for Perishing

ehs, eir, eng, ens, epi, erg, ern, ers, esp, esr, gen, ger, gie, gin, gis, gnp, gns, gph, gps, grs, hei, hen, hep, her, hes, hie, hin, hip, hir, his, hrs, ign, ihi, ihp, ihs, ing, ins, iph, ipr, ips, ire, irs, ise, ish, isn, neg, nei, nep, nie, nig, nip, nis, peg, peh, pen, per, pes, phi, phr, pie, pig, pin, pir, pis, pre, prn, prs, psi, reg, reh, rei, rep, res, rhe, rie, rig, rin, rip, rps, seg, sei, sen, sep, ser, she, shi, shp, shr, sie, sig, sin, sip, sir, sri

Definitions for Perishing

[1] causing destruction, ruin, extreme discomfort, or death: lost in the perishing cold.
[2] to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
[3] to pass away or disappear: an age of elegance that has forever perished.
[4] to suffer destruction or ruin: His valuable paintings perished in the fire.
[5] to suffer spiritual death: Save us, lest we perish.
[6] informal (of weather, etc) extremely cold
[7] slang (intensifier qualifying something undesirable) it's a perishing nuisance!
[8] to be destroyed or die, esp in an untimely way
[9] (tr sometimes followed by with or from) to cause to suffer we were perished with cold
[10] to rot leather perishes if exposed to bad weather
[11] perish the thought! may it never be or happen thus
[12] do a perish Australian informal to die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation

Words related to Perishing

disintegrate, crumble, wither, cease, disappear, vanish, rot, succumb, decease, depart, collapse, pass, corrupt, expire, demise, fall, go, end, waste, decompose

Words nearby Perishing

periscopic, perish, perish the thought, perishable, perished, perishing, perisigmoiditis, perisperm, perispermatitis, perisplanchnitis, perisplenitis

Origin of Perishing

1200–50; Middle English perissen < Old French periss-, long stem of perir < Latin perīre to perish, literally, go through, spend fully, equivalent to per- per- + īre to go

Other words from Perishing

per·ish·ing·ly , adverb
non·per·ish·ing , adjective
un·per·ish·ing , adjective
per·ish·less , adjective
per·ish·ment , noun
un·per·ished , adjective

Word origin for Perishing

C13: from Old French périr, from Latin perīre to pass away entirely, from per- (away) + īre to go

Synonyms for Perishing

cease, crumble, disappear, disintegrate, pass away, rot, succumb, vanish, wither, collapse, corrupt, croak, decease, decompose, demise, depart, end, expire, fall, go, pass, waste, OD, be destroyed, be killed, be lost, bite the dust, break down, buy the farm, check out, give up the ghost, go under, kick the bucket, lose life, pass on