All 3 Uses
perish
in
A Grace Given in Sorrow, translated by Fitzgerald
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- Soon Iris came on Thetis in a cave, surrounded by a company of Nereids lolling there, while she bewailed the fate of her magnificent son, now soon to perish on Troy's rich earth, far from his fatherland.†
*perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- Or can you be abandoning Ilion in fear, after he perished, that great one who never shirked a battle, your own princely son?†
perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- We are told that even Niobe in her extremity took thought for bread—though all her brood had perished, her six young girls and six tall sons.†
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)