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- They were just two of the more than 75,000 Jews from France who perished in the death camps of Nazi Germany, a permanent stain on French history.†
p. 8.8perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- All those depicted had perished in the Holocaust, including Isaac Weinberg, who had been photographed in his library three months before disaster struck.†
p. 11.7
- But the fact that four Israeli citizens had perished in the attack gave Navot standing in Paris.†
p. 39.5
- Were the operation ever to become public, Rousseau would surely perish in the resulting scandal.†
p. 193.7perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- ISIS gave purpose to lost souls and promised an afterlife of eternal copulation to those who perished for the cause.†
p. 200.8 *perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- The militants were four in number; all perished during the brief firefight.†
p. 242.9
- But what would the men of ISIS do to the female physician who allowed the great Saladin to perish before his mission of uniting the Muslim world under the black banner of the caliphate was complete?†
p. 303.2perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
Definitions:
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(1)
(perish) to die -- especially in an unnatural way
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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)