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Perish
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To cause perish. [Obs.] Bacon.