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perish
noun
▶ do a perish
to suffer great deprivation, especially of water or sustenance AUSTRALIA, 1897- And I’d like a refill for all the times I done a perish meself...but some’ow I always managed to strike a soak in the nick o’ time. — Coralie Rees, Spinifex Walkabout, p. 243, 1953
- [T]here was many a time in my young days I did a perish tramping from one shed to another not knowing where the next quart-pot of water was coming from. — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 96, 1962
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