disperish

disperish

English

Alternative forms

• dispersh (obsolete)

Etymology

First attested in 1382, from Middle English disperishen, from Old French desperiss-, extended stem of desperir, from Latin disperīre (“to go completely to ruin”), present active infinitive of dispereō.

Verb

disperish (third-person singular simple present disperishes, present participle disperishing, simple past and past participle disperished)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To be ruined or lost; to perish. [1]
2. (intransitive, archaic) To perish utterly. [2]

Further reading

www.quickanddirtytips.com, "40+ Words for Death"

References

1. "disperishen", Middle English Compendenium
2. "disperish", Crystal, David. Words in Time and Place: Exploring Language through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press, 2014.

Anagrams

• spiderish