PERISH


Meaning of PERISH in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

people

But the prophet says where there is no vision the people perish .

In Charleston, where people would rather perish . than seek professional counseling, she was a godsend.

Where there is television, there also must be vision, or the people perish .

Machines function. People either perish or prevail.

Without it, it is not an exaggeration to fear that the people will perish .

The prophet was right when he said that without a vision the people perish .

Fire broke out in an old, litter-strewn stand which soon became a death trap in which fifty-six people perished .

thought

In Soho, perish the thought ?

Not at all, Watson, perish the thought !

Not that she wanted him to contact her - perish the thought !

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Everyone aboard the ship perished when it sank off the coast of Maine.

Five children perished before firefighters could put out the blaze.

Sanchez perished in a mudslide in 1985.

We must make sure that democracy does not perish .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All of us would have perished of exposure and hunger had we not recaptured our ponies.

But by far the majority perish , before they are even hatched - or at least before they reach maturity and breed themselves.

But in 1691 the boy was reported to have fallen accidentally from a second-story window and perished.

Even so, 10,000-20,000 birds have perished.

He is believed to have perished fairly early in the prolonged series of guerrilla activities he inaugurated against Rome.

Most domestic building was in wood and has perished, but some of the great mural fortresses survive.

Sandy Lee Gilmore perished in the early morning blaze at her terraced home on the Drumtara estate.

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