perish

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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. put it simply in 1961, another era when it seemed America would split into pieces: “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

From Los Angeles Times

Assuming her son had perished in Italy, Eisenbeisser’s mother arranged a wake — only to have her son stroll into the ceremony very much alive, causing the woman to faint.

From Los Angeles Times

At the church, none in the congregation perished.

From Los Angeles Times

The composer Gustav Mahler, revered by Frank, said, “all that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.”

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From BBC