All 3 Uses
perish
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Listening for Lions
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- What if upon hearing the news he threw up his hands and perished in front of me?†
Book 2 *perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- Of course the mission board was under the impression that you had perished with your parents.†
Book 2
- Even as a child I had known that though we imagined ourselves in charge, the Kikuyu understood very well that we would perish without them.†
Book 3perish = die, be destroyed, or cease 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)