All 6 Uses of
perish
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- How we wives and mothers do perish at the hands of our own righteousness.†
Chpt 2 *perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- Father would sooner watch us all perish one by one than listen to anybody but himself.†
Chpt 2
- A man had been reading a long war story, as they did then: a firsthand account of a prison camp and a dreadful march, where exhausted men struggled hopelessly, fell behind, and perished in brief orange bursts of pistol fire in the darkness.†
Chpt 3perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- He meant personally to save more souls than had perished on the road from Bataan, I think, and all other paths ever walked by the blight of mankind.†
Chpt 3
- In the long perishing of children from kakakaka I saw the air change color: it was blue with biläla, the wailing for the dead.†
Chpt 3perishing = dying or being destroyed; or extremely cold
- I recited the 23rd Psalm, the 121st Psalm, the 100th and 137th and 19th and 66th Psalms, the 21st chapter of Revelation, Genesis one, Luke 22, First Corinthians, and finally John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.†
Chpt 4perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
Definition:
to die -- especially in an unnatural way
or:
to be destroyed or cease to exist
or:
to be destroyed or cease to exist
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.