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1. (of weather) very cold
    
2. Used as an intensifier for something annoying or unwanted
   "he's a perishing nuisance"

1. Cease to live; lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
   "The children perished in the fire";
   - die, decease [archaic], go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket [informal], cash in one's chips [informal], buy the farm [N. Amer, informal], conk [informal], give-up the ghost [informal], drop dead, pop off [informal], choke, croak [informal], snuff it [informal], flatline [informal], cop it [Brit, informal], cash in [informal], pop one's clogs [informal]

Type of: change state, turn

Encyclopedia: Perishing