Why “disperish” is a great word
DISPERISH — [Verb] To perish utterly or be completely ruined. From Middle English disperishen, from Old French desperiss-, extended stem of desperir, from Latin disperīre, from dis- ("utterly, completely") + perīre ("to perish"). First attested in 1382. Unlike "perish," a general term for dying or being destroyed, or "expire," which suggests a measured or natural cessation, to disperish is to be annihilated beyond all trace or recovery. It is the library consumed by flame, leaving not even ash for the wind; the lineage extinguished without a record; the forgotten city subsiding into granular dust—the final, quiet subtraction of a thing from the world, leaving not even a ghost behind.