Doomed vs Perished - What's the difference?
doomed | perished |
(perish)
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 doomed and perished
is that doomed is (doom) while perished is (perish).As an adjective doomed
is certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.perished
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Verb
(head)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)