Usually means: Ceasing to exist; dying out.
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  1. perishing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. perishing: Merriam-Webster
  3. perishing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. perishing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Perishing: Wordnik
  6. perishing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. perishing: Wiktionary
  8. perishing: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Perishing, perishing: Dictionary.com
  10. perishing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Perishing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. perishing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. perishing: FreeDictionary.org
  14. perishing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. perishing: Wordnik

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  1. perishing: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perishing: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. perishing: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. Perishing: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

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Definitions from Wiktionary (perishing)

▸ adjective:  Extremely cold.
▸ adjective:  Extreme; used of environmental or bodily conditions.
▸ noun:  The act of something that perishes; decay or destruction.

Similar:
expire, pass away, decease, exit, go, die, supercold, freezing cold, freezing, ultracold, more...

Opposite:
persisting, persistence

Types:
dying, decaying, rotting, fading, wilting, dessicating, mummifying, more...

Adjectives:
perpetual, daily, near, nigh, many, precious, own, utter, slow, non, poor

Colors:
    black,     gray,     charcoal,     onyx,     obsidian, more...



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Similar:
expire, pass away, decease, exit, go, die, supercold, freezing cold, freezing, ultracold, more...

Opposite:
persisting, persistence

Types:
dying, decaying, rotting, fading, wilting, dessicating, mummifying, more...

Adjectives:
perpetual, daily, near, nigh, many, precious, own, utter, slow, non, poor

Colors:
    black,     gray,     charcoal,     onyx,     obsidian, more...



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