Perished

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           I perish with hunger!                    --Luke xv. 17.
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           Grow up and perish, as the summer fly.   --Milton.
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           The thoughts of a soul that perish in thinking.
                                                    --Locke.
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