perishing 1 of 2

present participle of perish

perishing

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noun

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for perishing
Verb
  • She was intubated for nearly a week while medical staff at Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola worked to save her, including repeatedly scrubbing and cleaning out her leg to remove any dying tissue.
    Mollye Barrows, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Mason confirmed that Kirk was shot and taken to a hospital in a private vehicle before dying.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Buy fresh-looking pumpkins without blemishes, soft spots, or rotting stems.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
  • It can also be used to describe the brain-rotting content itself.
    Safiyah Riddle, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Leaders from around the world mourned the death of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated at a Utah university Wednesday.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement ‘This is war’ Several on the right have likened Kirk’s death to a declaration of war.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This can be something forceful falling or pressing on the toe or twisting it in an awkward manner.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Borrowers aged 18 to 29 are also falling 90 or more days late on auto loans faster than older borrowers.
    Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Researchers from each, plus the United States, were attempting to decipher the challenges presented by opposing either a regime or a decaying democracy.
    Ron Scherf, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Their decaying carcasses led to the rapid deterioration of water quality and an explosion of harmful bacteria, researchers said.
    Lauren Liebhaber September 5, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As the Snowball catastrophically collapsed once more, superhot oceans of meltwater, just offshore from rapidly disintegrating mile-thick ice sheets, drove some of the wildest weather in Earth history.
    Peter Brannen August 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Hoss — who’s sensual and full of sad, smiling bewilderment without ever disintegrating into ditziness — makes a mature, deeply poignant Ranevskaya.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Young spoke with Variety about the unarticulated rivalry that the Lost Boys have with one another, playing an adult with the mind of a child and working with a real-life sheep while staging his character’s grisly demise.
    Leia Mendoza, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The atmosphere also helped play a role in the rapid demise of Hurricane Lorena off the Mexico coast, sparing that region a direct landfall.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Sometimes higher levels could mean more decomposing vegetation, not animal feces.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Investigators found 189 decomposing bodies stored at room temperature at the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose in 2023 and charged owners Jon and Carie Hallford with abuse of a corpse, theft and forgery.
    Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Perishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perishing. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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