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Perish vs Mar - What's the difference?

perish | mar |

As a verb perish

is to pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.

As a noun mar is

sea.

perish

English

Verb

(es)
  • To pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.
  • To die; to cease to live.
  • * 1719 ,
  • ...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.
  • (obsolete) To cause to perish.
  • (Francis Bacon)

    Synonyms

    * decease, pass away * See also

    Derived terms

    * perish the thought

    Anagrams

    *

    mar

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (marr)
  • To spoil, to damage.
  • * Dryden
  • But mirth is marred , and the good cheer is lost.
  • * Milton
  • Ire, envy, and despair / Which marred all his borrowed visage.

    Etymology 2

    See (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small lake.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l) * (l) * (l), (l), (l) * (l) ----