ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Perishing

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Perishing is an adjective meaning Extremely cold.

Meaning

Extremely cold.

More Meanings

  1. Extreme; used of environmental or bodily conditions.
  2. present participle and gerund of perish
  3. The act of something that perishes; decay or destruction.

Example Sentences

Since the world of becoming, of origins and perishings, is deficient in true Being, it cannot be known in the best sense.
If many more white men knew of this method of obtaining and extracting water, there would be, perhaps, many saved from the horrors of perishing thirst.
A boulder ground into Joe's thigh and he yelled for what seemed an eternity in the perishing heat but, apart from a few bird calls, the horse's laboured breath was the only sound he heard.

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Related dictionary entries include die, decease, expire, exit, go, supercold.

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