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Definition of Perished
1. perish [v] - See also: perish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perished
Literary usage of Perished
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"1603-04 — 30000 perished in London. 1611 —200.00O died at Constantinople. ...
1818 — Vast numbers perished of cholera in Bombay, Ceylon, Siam and Malacca. ..."
2. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, George Smith, Harold F. Oxbury (1885)
"... of later times should have suffered such a curious and valuable document to
perish ; for perished it is to be feared it lias.' [Wood's Ath. Oxon. (ed. ..."
3. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1900)
"More likely it perished would have perished in one of the earlier seasons of sore
trial. It would have succumbed like Lane's colony, and White's, ..."
4. Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1895)
"... and it was so, and of them abundance perished, and particularly those whom
these false prophets flattered with hopes that they should be kept in their ..."
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