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  • Seeing that all life depends on this precise and intricate code transcribed on fragile, organic slivers, which would perish instantly in a slightly warmer or colder world.  (source)
    perish = cease to exist
  • Even an acknowledgment from someone who hates him is better than having no one but strangers watch him perish.  (source)
    perish = die
  • Louie knew that he had to get Phil's bleeding stopped, but if he went to him, the raft would be lost and all of them would perish.  (source)
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  • [of an ancient, dying oak] A small clearing surrounded the tree, as if the forest had stepped back to make room for it to perish.  (source)
    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.  (source)
    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.  (source)
    perishing = dying
  • 2470 Then sin was and striving of Swedes and of Geats, Over the wide water war-tide in common, The hard horde-hate to wit sithence Hrethel perish'd; And to them ever were the Ongentheow's sons Doughty and host-whetting, nowise then would friendship Hold over the waters; but round about Hreosnaburgh The fierce fray of foeman was oftentimes fram'd.†  (source)
    perish'd = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
  • Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.†  (source)
    perishes = dies or is destroyed
  • And Holy Earth in her increase perisheth: The child dies and the mother awaketh not.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She perisheth" in older English, today we say "She perishes."
  • Therefore, you clown, abandon,—which is in the vulgar, leave,—the society,—which in the boorish is company,—of this female,—which in the common is woman,—which together is abandon the society of this female; or, clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better understanding, diest; or, to wit, I kill thee, make thee away, translate thy life into death, thy liberty into bondage: I will deal in poison with thee, or in bastinado, or in steel; I will bandy with thee in faction; will o'er-run thee with policy; I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways; therefore tremble and depart.†  (source)
    perishest = die or is destroy
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou perishest" in older English, today we say "You perish."
  • His body might perish; it might be torn apart; it might become part of the sacrifice that — it was now clear — would have to be made.  (source)
    perish = die
  • Here, homeless and friendless, after thirty-seven years of bitter captivity, perished a noble stranger, natural son of Louis XIV.  (source)
    perished = died
  • "Well —" he rolled his eyes—"I was still a bit green, but I realized at that rate I'd be perishing of old age before I ever got out of there.†  (source)
    perishing = dying or being destroyed; or extremely cold
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