perish
verb (used without object)
to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc..
am perishing
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present progressiveof perish (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Mother and I are going to call on them, but I do not know when that will be; and I have heard so much about the doctor's secretary that I am perishing to see her.
From The Girl at Cobhurst by Frank Richard Stockton
I am perishing for a swallow of water!
From Frank Merriwell's Alarm Doing His Best by Burt L. Standish
I am perishing of thirst, and this scorching sun is adding to my torments.
From A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy by Edward S. Hodgson
But I am perishing for God as a waterless man upon a raft perishes for drink, and there is nothing but madness if I touch the seas about me.
From Soul of a Bishop by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Since Plutus has recovered his sight, I am perishing of starvation; I, the priest of Zeus the Deliverer, have nothing to eat!
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes
