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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That we talked about horses, and the superiority of "blood" in animals; that at dawn, Hampton said, "I am perishing for sleep!" and that we lay down, side by side, near a haystack.
From Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee by John Esten Cooke
He swallowed a little, then feebly articulated, "I am perishing for want of food."
From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter
I know for certain I am perishing for love of you; I love you more and more; the end of it will be that you must go with me when I go away.
From Pan by Knut Hamsun
And I thought: 'I am perishing of cold and hunger, and here is a man thinking only of how to clothe himself and his wife, and how to get bread for themselves.
From What Men Live By and Other Tales by Aylmer Maude
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
