disperish

English edit

Alternative forms edit

dispersh (obsolete)

Etymology edit

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 edit

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

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

References edit

Anagrams edit

spiderish

[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.

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