All 3 Uses of
perish
in
Great Expectations
- "When a man's alone on these flats, with a light head and a light stomach, perishing of cold and want, he hears nothin' all night, but guns firing, and voices calling.†
Chpt 3
- Wild as my inward hurry was, and wonderful the force of the pictures that rushed by me instead of thoughts, I could yet clearly understand that, unless he had resolved that I was within a few moments of surely perishing out of all human knowledge, he would never have told me what he had told.†
Chpt 53
- It was a good thing that he had touched this point, for it put into my mind what I might not otherwise have thought of until too late,— that he need never know how his hopes of enriching me had perished.†
Chpt 54 *
Definition:
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(perish) to die -- especially in an unnatural way
or:
to be destroyed or cease to existeditor's notes: You may encounter an informal expression, "Perish the thought." It means that the speaker hopes the thought will cease to exist and the thing it represents will never happen.