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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Perish \Per"ish\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Perished}; p. pr & vb
n. {Perishing}.] [OE. perissen, perisshen F. p['e]rir, p.
pr p['e]rissant, L. perire to go or run through come to
nothing, perish; per through + ire to go Cf {Issue}, and
see {-ish}.]
To be destroyed; to pass away to become nothing; to be lost;
to die; hence to wither; to waste away
I perish with hunger! --Luke xv 17.
Grow up and perish, as the summer fly. --Milton.
The thoughts of a soul that perish in thinking.
--Locke.
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