Usually means: Ceased to exist; died out.
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  1. perished: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. perished: Merriam-Webster
  3. perished: Collins English Dictionary
  4. perished: Vocabulary.com
  5. Perished, perished: Wordnik
  6. perished: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. perished: Wiktionary
  8. Perished, perished: Dictionary.com
  9. perished: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Perished: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Perished: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Perished: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. perished: FreeDictionary.org
  14. perished: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. perished: Legal dictionary

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  1. perished: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To decay and disappear; to waste away to nothing.
verb:  (intransitive) To decay in such a way that it cannot be used for its original purpose
verb:  (intransitive) To die; to cease to live.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To cause to perish.
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