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perish
verb as in die, decline, decay
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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.
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It’s still uncertain how many of the trees it scorched will perish.
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“The children of the Earth shall perish,” Ama mutters to herself.
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Only one side of the family can remain, or both will perish from the earth.
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If that was the case, and if they miscalculated and stayed down too long, they would have run out of oxygen and perished.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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