Perishing

Salt prevents food from perishing.

I'm perishing.

If many more white men knew of this method of obtaining and extracting water, there would be, perhaps, many saved from the horrors of perishing thirst.

A boulder ground into Joe's thigh and he yelled for what seemed an eternity in the perishing heat but, apart from a few bird calls, the horse's laboured breath was the only sound he heard.

Since the world of becoming, of origins and perishings, is deficient in true Being, it cannot be known in the best sense.