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- adverb
extremely cold. Emphasising the extreme degree of coldness.
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Examples
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The chance to end slavery seemed perishingly small.
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The chance to end slavery seemed perishingly small.
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The chance to end slavery seemed perishingly small.
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The chance to end slavery seemed perishingly small.
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The chance to end slavery seemed perishingly small.
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Any indictments by the International Criminal Court will guarantee that whatever hope, however perishingly slight, that the AU/UN force for Darfur will ever be able to achieve something has de facto been abandoned.
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Since the fact that Britain is not a country worth living in has been a constant feature of Melanie Phillips 'journalism since about 1992, the habitable territory of the world seems perishingly small.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007
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Update: In his first speech as Minister of National Defence Mr O'Connor provided perishingly little in the way of detail on strengthening the Canadian Forces.
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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I was sorry for him in my soul, he was so cruelly tired, so perishingly victorious.
Twilight in Italy 2003
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Some of the rooms were perishingly cold, but very few of the officers or mages spent much time in their tiny closet-sized rooms.
Storm Rising Lackey, Mercedes 1995
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