"perishing" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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        "Extremely cold."
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        {
          "ref": "1946, Frank W. C. Rieck, Life as I See It, page 308",
          "text": "If many more white men knew of this method of obtaining and extracting water, there would be, perhaps, many saved from the horrors of perishing thirst.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Mary Groves, An Outback Life, page 102",
          "text": "A boulder ground into Joe's thigh and he yelled for what seemed an eternity in the perishing heat but, apart from a few bird calls, the horse's laboured breath was the only sound he heard.",
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        "Extreme; used of environmental or bodily conditions."
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        "present participle and gerund of perish"
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          "ref": "1971, William Barrett, Henry David Aiken, Pragmatism and America's philosophical coming of age, page 323",
          "text": "Since the world of becoming, of origins and perishings, is deficient in true Being, it cannot be known in the best sense.",
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        "The act of something that perishes; decay or destruction."
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  "word": "perishing"
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Mary Groves, An Outback Life, page 102",
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      "glosses": [
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