perish
verb (used without object)
to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc..
are perishing
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present progressiveof perish.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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All that’s clear is massive landmarks are perishing and that you need to run.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2024
With access to the usual breeding and birthing grounds blocked by militaries on either side, newborn goats are perishing in the extreme cold of higher elevations, herders say.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2020
It is not a “nursing home” where, we are told, people are perishing in significant numbers, where, in the cogent headline of a New York Times print headline, we are “sitting ducks.”
From Slate ● May 19, 2020
Every day children are perishing in rural Yemen, where two-thirds of the nation’s population lives.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2016
When on the three his fierce eye fell, He charged them with a roar and yell As furious as the grisly King When stricken worlds are perishing.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
