Verb

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To pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.

To die; to cease to live.

* 1719 ,

...the ship struck upon a sand, and ... the sea broke over her in such a manner that we expected we should all have perished immediately; and we were immediately driven into our close quarters, to shelter us from the very foam and spray of the sea.

(obsolete) To cause to perish.

(Francis Bacon)

Verb

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(intransitive): To issue a medium (e.g. publication).

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author= David Larousserie

, volume=189, issue=10, page=35, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Super-lasers blaze knowledge frontier , passage=In an article published in 2008 [Gérard] Mourou proposed an alternative means of achieving atomic fusion. He now believes that fibre lasers could be used to transmute elements, as a way of disposing of highly radioactive waste from nuclear power stations.}}

(transitive): To issue something (usually printed work) for sale and distribution.

(transitive): To announce to the public.

(Internet) To convert data of a Web page to HTML in a local directory and copy it to the Web site on a remote system.

(intransitive): To write in a publication (usually as an academic).