perishing
adjective
causing destruction, ruin, extreme discomfort, or death.
perishingly
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a word derived from
perishing.
Example Sentences
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One blustery, perishingly cold October day last year, English Heritage threw a celebration at Stonehenge marking the monument’s centenary in public ownership.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2019
McCall, who has presented shows including Channel 4's Million Pound Drop and ITV's Long Lost Family, had earlier told Breakfast Windereme was "absolutely beautiful but perishingly cold" with the temperature at 5.9 degrees Celcius.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2014
Photograph: PA The blossoms were out, ten thousand daffodils I saw at a glance, but it was perishingly cold in St James's Park last week.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2010
The mere outer friendship may in some degree—greater or less—survive; but the singular love in it has perishingly dropped away.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
The wind had turned perishingly cold,—so cold that I decided to retire from my exposed situation and seek for some spot more or less sheltered from the streaming air-current.
From Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
