Anagrams of: EMPERISHING

• a silly self-conscious smile

• smile affectedly or derisively

• To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.

• To make a premise.

• To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.

• To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.

• The practice of humans traveling in a sphere, generally made of transparent plastic, usually for fun.

• disparaging terms for small people

• any of various edible decapod crustaceans

• small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible

• fish for shrimp