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noun

Definition of perishingnext
as in dying

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perishing

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verb

present participle of perish
1
as in falling
to stop living 12 people perished in the plane crash

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2
as in rotting
chiefly British to go through decomposition after being left out in the summer heat, the milk perished and had to be thrown out

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  1. dying
  2. rotting
  3. death
  4. falling
  5. decaying
  6. disintegrating
  7. demise
  8. expiration
Verb
  • Estate Taxes The federal estate tax exclusion for decedents dying in 2025 will increase to $13,990,000 per person, or $27,980,000 per married couple.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Two people were stabbed at a transit station in Queens, with one of them dying, and a woman was set on fire and died on a subway car in Brooklyn.
    Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Dec. 2024
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Verb
  • The carnage is truly next-level, including one infamous scene in which Joey wades through a literal pool of bloody, rotting dead bodies—all victims of Abigail's ferocious killer instincts.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2024
  • There was a foul odor of something rotting.
    Lee Chang-dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of rotting
Noun
  • The nation was understandably ecstatic, but the civilian deaths went unremarked upon by most Israelis.
    Ben Krull, New York Daily News, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Instead, one of his most famous releases finally climbs to the top spot on a tally that wasn’t introduced until long, long after his death.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of death
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  • To qualify for relief, a reporting company must have a BOI reporting deadline falling within the period beginning one day before the date the specified disaster began - as indicated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) – and ending 90 days after that date.
    Matthew F. Erskine, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • This morning, heavy rain is falling across San Francisco up to Sacramento – rainfall rates of 1 inch per hour are possible.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2024
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  • One common pattern in decaying democracies are attacks on judicial figures.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
  • During a boat ride into Trinity Bay, just outside of Houston, the team carefully tested 10 decaying offshore wells and found seven to be leaking combustible gas at the time.
    Evan Simon, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of decaying
Verb
  • Except—and for me, the difference is crucial—Akhtar employed his creativity and imagination to shape these source materials into an utterly original work of art, whereas the rapidly disintegrating McNeal employs a chatbot, which shapes the material into an uncannily precise act of mimesis.
    Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
  • That will likely result in those protections disintegrating, Meyer said.
    J.J. McCorvey, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of disintegrating
Noun
  • Ophelia, even in her delusion, wants others to remember her late father and the events that led to his demise.
    Nina Foster, JSTOR Daily, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Cara starts to panic, thrashing around, while Tori, who is also struggling on the inside, is able to better maintain her composure, hoping that the illusion of strength will expedite Cara’s demise.
    Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of demise
Noun
  • Friday marks the quarterly expiration of stock index futures, stock index options and single stock options.
    Brian Evans,Sean Conlon, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Another potential change is the expiration of the qualified business income deduction, which allowed small business owners, freelancers and others who own their own business to deduct 20% of their income from their taxes.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of expiration
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