What's the difference between cherish and perish?

Cherish


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid.
  • (v. t.) To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However the imagery is more complex, because scholars believe it also relates to another cherished pre-Raphaelite Arthurian legend, Sir Degrevaunt who married his mortal enemy's daughter.
  • (2) I hope this two days off gives him the stimulus.” The omissions left a manager who cherishes control at risk of falling foul of the “law of Murphy” that he had already bemoaned this season.
  • (3) Some of their most cherished objectives, such as parliamentary reform, have been left as roadkill by the juggernauts of Tory and Labour hostility.
  • (4) Chelsea have an unorthodox way of gathering trophies but it is a successful one – and they will cherish this as one of their great nights.
  • (5) If we do not act now we will consign the cherished principles of equality before the law and access to justice to the dustbin of history, and as we approach the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta that would be an ironic tragedy.” An MoJ spokesperson said: “We note the judgment and will carefully consider our next steps.
  • (6) Miliband said: "Our struggle is to fight to preserve, protect and defend the best of the services we cherish because they represent the best of the country we love.
  • (7) This has been a season of distress, disorder and the dismissal of an iconic manager for Chelsea but now comes a night that could go a long way to making it one for the club to cherish.
  • (8) He said: "If we truly cherish our kids, more than money, more than our celebrities, we must must give them the greatest level of protection possible and the security that is only available with a properly trained – armed – good guy."
  • (9) The Fulham forward, who spent the second half of last season on loan at PSV Eindhoven, can cherish one of the goals of his life.
  • (10) Many developing nations cherish the legally binding commitments that Kyoto places on industrialised nations and fiercely oppose proposals that would change this.
  • (11) It is hard to explain the significance of the man to those who may not have been born at the time or informed of the freedom struggle, or born witness to his dignity, pride, humility and moral authority, but I and so many others revered him as a father and cherished his existence as a living secular saint.
  • (12) They cherish the stability and the peaceful lives they are able to live.
  • (13) So they cherish this small part of the city that belongs to them.
  • (14) But it may help steer a few more people away from Starbucks in the direction of Costa or one of those small independent coffee shops, book shops, grocers (etc, etc) whom we should cherish while they cling on in the face of unfair competition.
  • (15) It is rarely easy being the new girlfriend, particularly when the previous one was so cherished, and 2012 – the new girlfriend in town – has a tough act to follow.
  • (16) She said: “We struggle to comprehend the warped and twisted mind that sees a room packed with young children not as a scene to cherish but an opportunity for carnage.
  • (17) This survey was designed to study cherished objects and other memorabilia as "reminiscentia," (i.e., as inducers of reminiscence).
  • (18) But very few of Friedman's most cherished proposals were ever put in to practice.
  • (19) In an address at the Woodrow Wilson Center in August 2007 , Obama criticized the Bush administration for putting forward a "false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand", and swore to provide "our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our constitution and our freedom".
  • (20) A spokesman for Prince Charles said: “The red squirrel is a most cherished and iconic national species, and, as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, the Prince of Wales keenly supports all efforts to conserve and promote their diminishing numbers.

Perish


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
  • (v. t.) To cause perish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Not one life was lost – though of course millions of votes might well have perished in this inhospitable terrain.
  • (2) The groups of survived and perished animals differed (the difference was statistically significant) by the extent of coordination of the enzymatic lymphocyte systems: the correlation of enzymatic indices in the survived animals was greater than in the perished ones.
  • (3) Yesterday, Harry Patch died peacefully in his bed at his residential home in Wells, Somerset, a man who spent his last years urging his friends and many admirers never to forget the 9.7 million young men who perished during the 1914-18 war.
  • (4) The six trained together, were dispatched to Afghanistan together and, in the end, perished together when their armoured vehicle was hit by a massive Taliban bomb.
  • (5) The authors report about 3 cases of the congenital adreno-genital syndrome in first-born children with a high weight at birth (3900, 3600, and 4200 g) who perished in early infancy.
  • (6) Wet corn gluten feed is also an adequate supplement for raising dairy replacements, allowing more rapid utilization of this perishable feed resource by the dairy herd.
  • (7) Niger to ban women and children travelling in Sahara after 92 perish Read more The sub-Saharan migrants are determined.
  • (8) Final internal processing temperatures within the range of 63 to 74 degrees C did not alter the degree of botulinal inhibition in inoculated perishable canned comminuted cured pork abused at 27 degrees C. Adding hemoglobin to the formulation reduced residual nitrite after processing and decreased botulinal inhibition.
  • (9) In 1945 I got word that my two sons had died in the Leningrad blockade and my husband had perished fighting in Smolensk.
  • (10) Non-perishables – spaghetti, rice, flour, condensed milk, tomato sauce – come from the food bank.
  • (11) More than 30 of the 189 Americans who perished on the flight were from the state of New Jersey.
  • (12) The heroine of Jane Eyre is hypnotised by this cold and saintly missionary, who proposes that they marry and go to India together to convert heathens (and perish doing God's holy work).
  • (13) There was not only an increase in average days of survival of those that perished, but also a marked increase in the number of greater than 60-day survivors.
  • (14) After a crisis meeting at the Elysée on Friday morning, Hollande confirmed that all 118 people on board – 112 passengers and six Spanish crew – had perished.
  • (15) Your little country will forever be honoured as the site that made the Princess Diana thing look like a restrained wake for a loathed spinster who perished alone on a desert island.
  • (16) It became clear that there was no chance of a successful rescue and the children perished.
  • (17) The control group was composed of 7 practically healthy persons who had perished suddenly as a result of craniocerebral trauma.
  • (18) It was found that in the gills of minnow, the other mass fish in the northern rivers of the USSR, larvae of M. margaritifera cannot develop and perish.
  • (19) We're here to celebrate not only comrade Madiba but all the men and women who perished in the liberation war."
  • (20) When using in the lymphocytotoxic reaction lymphocytes stored in frozen condition the proportion of perished cells after thawing should not exceed 10-20%.