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Perished vs Killed - What's the difference?

perished | killed |

As verbs the difference between perished and killed

is that perished is past tense of perish while killed is past tense of kill.

As an adjective killed is

deoxidized.

perished

English

Verb

(head)
  • (perish)

    • 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

    Related terms

    * perishable

    External links

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    killed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (kill)

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "killed")

    Derived terms

    * must have killed a Chinaman

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (metallurgy, of steel) deoxidized