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Definition of Perish

Perish

  1. To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
  2. To cause perish.

Perish Quotations

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf

That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Khalil Gibran
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Perish Translations

perish in Dutch is creperen, ondergaan, omkomen
perish in Finnish is tuhoutua
perish in German is umkommen
perish in Latin is abolesco, pereo
perish in Spanish is perecer

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