emperished

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɛɹɪʃt/

emperished

1. simple past and past participle of emperish

emperished (comparative more emperished, superlative most emperished)

1. (obsolete) perished; decayed
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Se[c]unda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:

     I deem thy brain emperished be.

• “emperished”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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