perishing
/pˈɛɹɪʃɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.30 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Extreme; used of environmental or bodily conditions.
noun
The act of something that perishes; decay or destruction.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Since the world of becoming, of origins and perishings, is deficient in true Being, it cannot be known in the best sense."