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perished
adjective as in dead
adjective as in decayed
adjective as in fallen
adjective as in lost
Strong matches
Weak matches
adjective as in nonexistent
Weak matches
- airy
- baseless
- blank
- chimerical
- dead
- defunct
- departed
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- empty
- ethereal
- extinct
- extinguished
- fancied
- few and far between
- flimsy
- gone
- gossamery
- groundless
- hallucinatory
- hypothetical
- illusory
- imaginary
- imagined
- immaterial
- imponderable
- insubstantial
- legendary
- lost
- missing
- mythical
- null
- null and void
- passed away
- passed on
- shadowy
- ungrounded
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- vague
- vaporous
- void
- without foundation
adjective as in rotten
Example Sentences
He said Farage's words had "hit hard" because his grandparents had escaped Nazi Germany and much of their family had perished in the Holocaust.
Some perished after the fire — overwhelmed and confused by the trauma.
Huge numbers perished in the Holocaust, yet even immediately after the war Yiddish was the pre-eminent language among the world's Jews.
Or patients who perished from treatable infections for lack of antibiotics and proper dressings for wounds.
A strength of “The Gales of November” is the way Mr. Bacon weaves in the stories of the crewmen who perished when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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