All 6 Uses of
perish
in
The Hobbit
- I once saw him sitting all alone on the top of the Carrock at night watching the moon sinking towards the Misty Mountains, and I heard him growl in the tongue of bears; 'The day will come when they will perish and I shall go back!'†
Chpt 7
- Doubtless they perished first in fire, before Smaug came to us.†
Chpt 14 *
- Probably most of them would have perished in the winter that now hurried after autumn, if help had not been to hand.†
Chpt 14
- They drove many of them into the Running River, and such as fled south or west they hunted into the marshes about the Forest River; and there the greater part of the last fugitives perished, while those that came hardly to the Wood-elves' realm were there slain, or drawn in to die in the trackless dark of Mirkwood.†
Chpt 18
- Songs have said that three parts of the goblin warriors of the North perished on that day, and the mountains had peace for many a year.†
Chpt 18
- Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and crown perish With strength that men trusted And wealth that they cherish, Here grass is still growing, And leaves are yet swinging, The white water flowing, And elves are yet singing Come!†
Chpt 19
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.