p 3 e 1 r 1 i 1 s 1 h 4
6 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
originFrom Middle English perishen, borrowed from Old French perir (via the stem periss- used in various conjugations), from Latin perīre (“pass away, perish”), from per (“through”) + īre (“pass, go”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0