Perish vs Tremble - What's the difference?
perish | tremble |
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.
To shake, quiver, or vibrate.
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In intransitive terms the difference between perish and tremble
is that perish is to die; to cease to live while tremble is to shake, quiver, or vibrate.As a noun tremble is
a shake, quiver, or vibration.perish
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Verb
(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)
