All 6 Uses
perish
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Oedipus the King
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- If in the days of old when we nigh had perished, ye drave From our land the fiery plague, be near us now and defend us!†
*perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- 2) Wasted thus by death on death All our city perisheth.†
perisheth = dies or is destroyedstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She perisheth" in older English, today we say "She perishes."
- For what night leaves undone, Smit by the morrow's sun Perisheth.†
- 2) Witness, thou Sun, such thought was never mine, Unblest, unfriended may I perish, If ever I such wish did cherish!†
perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- An oracle Once came to Laius (I will not say 'Twas from the Delphic god himself, but from His ministers) declaring he was doomed To perish by the hand of his own son, A child that should be born to him by me.†
- For Loxias said expressly he was doomed To die by my child's hand, but he, poor babe, He shed no blood, but perished first himself.†
perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
Definitions:
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(1)
(perish) to die -- especially in an unnatural way
or:
to be destroyed or cease to existYou 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. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)