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perishing
adjective as in crumbly
adjective as in dying
adjective as in moribund
adjective as in starving
adjective as in starving/starved
noun as in decay
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noun as in putrefaction
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- adulteration
- atrophy
- blight
- breakdown
- caries
- consumption
- corrosion
- decadence
- decline
- decomposition
- decrease
- decrepitude
- degeneracy
- degeneration
- depreciation
- deterioration
- dilapidation
- disintegration
- disrepair
- dissolution
- downfall
- dying
- extinction
- fading
- failing
- gangrene
- impairment
- mortification
- putrescence
- putridity
- putridness
- rot
- rottenness
- rotting
- ruin
- ruination
- rust
- senescence
- spoilage
- spoilation
- wasting
- withering
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noun as in putrescence
Strong matches
- adulteration
- atrophy
- blight
- breakdown
- caries
- consumption
- corrosion
- decadence
- decline
- decomposition
- decrease
- decrepitude
- degeneracy
- degeneration
- depreciation
- deterioration
- dilapidation
- disintegration
- disrepair
- dissolution
- downfall
- dying
- extinction
- fading
- failing
- gangrene
- impairment
- mortification
- putrefaction
- putridity
- putridness
- rot
- rottenness
- rotting
- ruin
- ruination
- rust
- senescence
- spoilage
- spoilation
- wasting
- withering
Weak matches
noun as in putridness
Strong matches
- adulteration
- atrophy
- blight
- breakdown
- caries
- consumption
- corrosion
- decadence
- decline
- decomposition
- decrease
- decrepitude
- degeneracy
- degeneration
- depreciation
- deterioration
- dilapidation
- disintegration
- disrepair
- dissolution
- downfall
- dying
- extinction
- fading
- failing
- gangrene
- impairment
- mortification
- putrefaction
- putrescence
- putridity
- rot
- rottenness
- rotting
- ruin
- ruination
- rust
- senescence
- spoilage
- spoilation
- wasting
- withering
Weak matches
noun as in spoilage
Strong matches
- adulteration
- atrophy
- blight
- breakdown
- caries
- consumption
- corrosion
- decadence
- decline
- decomposition
- decrease
- decrepitude
- degeneracy
- degeneration
- depreciation
- deterioration
- dilapidation
- disintegration
- disrepair
- dissolution
- downfall
- dying
- extinction
- fading
- failing
- gangrene
- impairment
- mortification
- putrefaction
- putrescence
- putridity
- putridness
- rot
- rottenness
- rotting
- ruin
- ruination
- rust
- senescence
- spoilation
- wasting
- withering
Weak matches
Example Sentences
All that’s clear is massive landmarks are perishing and that you need to run.
Can’t say the local GOP is perishing, but given the above, it doesn’t seem too healthy.
One woman told us this Easter was bittersweet: "I don't feel good when I see Haiti is perishing. Especially when I see my brothers and sisters dying from bullets in Port-au-Prince."
But it was littered with cautionary tales of women who got strung out on drugs, who found themselves single moms to multiple kids with various ballers, who were totally burnt out, whose reputations were so damaged that they disappeared into oblivion, or who didn’t make it out at all, perishing by suicide or overdose.
The young meat-eater had chomped off the hind legs of two parrot-like dinosaurs called caenagnathids before perishing itself.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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