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perishing

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1. perishing - Noun

2. perishing - Adjective

3. perishing - Verb

Meaning

of Perish

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The world does not need our ponderings, opinions, and judgments. It is perishing because of the lack of love. Source: Internet

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. Milan Kundera

As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies. Arthur Schopenhauer

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace. Arthur Henderson

Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it. James Baldwin

Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic. Robinson Jeffers

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