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Unbroken - adapted for young adults
- At one mental hospital, patients were given milk from cows infected with tuberculosis, in the belief that the unfit would perish.†
p. 12.3 *perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- A quarter of a barracks perished at once.†
p. 77.4perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- Louie knew he had to stop Phil's bleeding, but if he lost the rafts, they'd all perish.†
p. 103.5perish = 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.