Past tense of perish
regular verb
The past tense of perish is perished. The past participle is also perished.
Forms of perish
| Base form (V1) | perish /ˈpɛɹɪʃ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | perished /ˈpɛɹɪʃt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | perished /ˈpɛɹɪʃt/ |
| Present participle | perishing |
| Third person singular | perishes |
Perished in a sentence
- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.From the entry adapt
- There was a rather satisfying little crack as each of the perishers perished.2010, Alan Weeks, Bloody Picnic: Tommy's Humour, 1914-18, The History Press, →ISBN. From the entry perisher
- Simeti, the bright light of his eye, had perished in the fire and smoke and thunder.2010, David Luders, Cataclysm, page 91. From the entry light of one's eye
- A third is that they perished while serving in the special Afro-Argentine male battalions of the army.2003, C. Michael Hawn, Gather Into One: Praying and Singing Globally. From the entry Afro-Argentine
- It was a Victorian concept and its life force perished with the Victorian Age.1948, Henry Vincent Hodson, Twentieth-century Empire, page 102. From the entry highmindedness
Meaning of perish
- verb To decay and disappear; to waste away to nothing.
- verb To decay in such a way that it cannot be used for its original purpose.
- verb To die; to cease to live.
Questions about the past tense of perish
- What is the past tense of perish?
- The past tense of perish is perished.
- What is the past participle of perish?
- The past participle of perish is perished.
- Is perish a regular or irregular verb?
- Perish is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: perish (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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