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Definition

to die — especially in an unnatural way

or:

to be destroyed or cease to exist

...government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln -- Gettysburg Address

perish = be destroyed or cease to exist

perish = die

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

perish = die

They'd perish if they went outdoors in this weather!
Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

perish = die

Shaking in every limb, I groped my way back to the wall; resolving there to perish rather than risk the terrors of the wells,
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum

perish = die

perish = die

[of the legend of Hercules and Antaeus] But when he was held, rootless, in midair, by Hercules, he perished easily. If there isn't something in that legend for us today, in this city, in our time, then I am completely insane.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

perished = died

I'd made the jar as nice as I could with felty petals, fat with pollen, and more than enough nail holes in the lid to keep the bees from perishing, since for all I knew, people might come back one day as the very thing they killed.
Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees

perishing = dying

...government of the people. . .by the people. . .for the people. . . shall not perish from this earth.
Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

perish = cease to exist

Here, homeless and friendless, after thirty-seven years of bitter captivity, perished a noble stranger, natural son of Louis XIV.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

perished = died

perish = cease to exist

perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist

They perish from hunger and from the claws of the wild beasts...
Ayn Rand -- Anthem

perish = die

For those who perished on the line
He did not seem to care,
His engine being more to him
Than all the people there.
Edith Nesbit -- The Railway Children

perished = died

Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
Abraham Lincoln -- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

perish = be destroyed

Montag saw the flirt of a great metal fist over the far city and he knew the scream of the jets that would follow, would say, after the deed, disintegrate, leave no stone on another, perish.
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

perish = die

Ultimately, returning to this country, he was thrown into jail for debt, and there perished miserably, as such high spirits generally do.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
But just as time heals the marsh grasses that wither and perish in the winter cold, so does it quell the storms that often threaten the human soul.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
Should Rowan continue this futile resistance, all it holds dear will perish in agony.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
I want a democratic power strong enough to force the intellectual oligarchy to use its genius for the general good or else perish.
George Bernard Shaw -- Major Barbara

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