Usually means: Ceases to exist or live.
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  1. perishes: Merriam-Webster
  2. perishes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. perishes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Perishes, perishes: Wordnik
  5. perishes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. perishes: Wiktionary
  7. perishes: Dictionary.com
  8. perishes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. perishes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perishes: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perishes: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (perish)

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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