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Definition
to die — especially in an unnatural way
or:
to be destroyed or cease to exist
or:
to be destroyed or cease to exist
- Stewardess Who Perished in Crash Warned Sisterp. 127.1
- A set of medical records told of a soldier who had survived the Korean battlefield, only to perish here.p. 95.4
- Four occupants of the ravaged apartment building perished, three of them from the same family—Irving Zahler, 30, his 27-year-old wife, Marilyn, and their 4-year-old son, Monte.p. 301.1
- Chubby little Patty Clausen, age 5, was unharmed, but her mother perished.p. 313.5
There are no more uses of "perish" in In the Unlikely Event.
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