All 9 Uses of
perish
in
Sole Survivor
- Three hundred and thirty people, including passengers and crew, perished instantly.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- Racked by guilt because he had not perished with his wife and daughters, Joe tortured himself with these attempts to share the horror that they must have experienced.†
Chpt 1.2
- Everyone aboard the airliner had perished.†
Chpt 2.5
- He would find it intolerable, however, if they had perished from a cowardly act of terrorism or because of some more personal crime, their lives sacrificed to human greed or envy or hatred.†
Chpt 2.6
- As Bob Vadance sat on the sofa beside his wife, Clarise explained that Joe's family had perished in the crash.†
Chpt 2.7
- Perversely, if he perished in the same way that his wife and daughters had been taken, he would be calm and without fear on the long ride down into the earth, because such a fate would seem like a welcome return to balance in the universe, an open circle closed, a wrongness made right at last.†
Chpt 3.9
- Now he stood at another Zero Point, the physical one, where his wife and daughters had perished.†
Chpt 3.11
- Two employees of Project 99 perish in the process.†
Chpt 4.16
- Then they will contact the husbands and wives and parents and children of those who perished on Flight 353, bringing them both the received knowledge of immortality and visions of their loved ones at the blue interface.†
Chpt 4.16
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.