perishable.html - {v. phr.} Let us not even think of it; may it never come true. - Used as an exclamation. * /If John fails the college entrance exam - perish the thought - he will go back to high school for one more year./ * /Perish the thought that Mary should have cancer./ Compare: GOD FORBID.

perishable.html - v.
1 intr. be destroyed; suffer death or ruin.
2 a intr. (esp. of rubber, a rubber object, etc.) lose its normal qualities; deteriorate, rot. b tr. cause to rot or deteriorate.
3 tr. (in passive) suffer from cold or exposure (we were perished standing outside).

perish the thought an exclamation of horror against an unwelcome idea.

perishless adj. [ME f. OF perir f. L perire pass away (as PER-, ire go)]

perishable.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

liable to perish; subject to decay.

--n.

a thing, esp. a foodstuff, subject to speedy decay.

perishability n. perishableness n.

perishable.html - n.
Brit. sl. an annoying person.

perishable.html - adj. & adv.
colloq. --adj.

1 confounded.
2 freezing cold, extremely chilly.

--adv.

confoundedly.

perishingly adv.

perishable.html - {v. phr.} Let us not even think of it; may it never come true. - Used as an exclamation. * /If John fails the college entrance exam - perish the thought - he will go back to high school for one more year./ * /Perish the thought that Mary should have cancer./ Compare: GOD FORBID.