All 7 Uses
perish
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Another Country
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- It could happen; and he would have loved to see it happen, even if he perished, too.†
p. 85.7perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- Without this effort, the secret place was merely a dungeon in which the person perished; without this effort, indeed, the entire world would be an uninhabitable darkness; and she saw, with a dreadful reluctance, why this effort was so rare.†
p. 112.6
- And because the taste for obscenity is universal and the appetite for reality rare and hard to cultivate, he had nearly perished in the basement of his private life.†
p. 197.3
- Something had been frozen in them, the root of their affections had been frozen, so that they could no longer accept affection, though it was from this lack that they were perishing.†
p. 212.1perishing = dying or being destroyed; or extremely cold
- One was continually being jostled, yet longed, at the same time, for the sense of others, for a human touch; and if one was never—it was the general complaint—left alone in New York, one had, still, to fight very hard in order not to perish of loneliness.†
p. 230.4perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- And whatever stalked there saw, and spread the news of what it saw throughout the entire kingdom of whomever, though the eye itself might perish.†
p. 302.2 *
- They perished within their despised clay tenements, in isolation, passively, or actively together, in mobs, thirsting and seeking for, and eventually reeking of blood.†
p. 302.4perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased 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)