Cherish vs Perish - What's the difference?
cherish | perish |
To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.
*, chapter=12
, title= To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle.
(obsolete) To cheer, gladden.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vi:
To pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.
To die; to cease to live.
* 1719 ,
(obsolete) To cause to perish.
As verbs the difference between cherish and perish
is that cherish is to treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid while perish is to pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.cherish
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The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished .}}
- Her merry fit she freshly gan to reare, / And did of ioy and iollitie deuize, / Her selfe to cherish , and her guest to cheare [...].
perish
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(es)- ...the ship struck upon a sand, and ... the sea broke over her in such a manner that we expected we should all have perished immediately; and we were immediately driven into our close quarters, to shelter us from the very foam and spray of the sea.
- (Francis Bacon)