perished

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.

But in the end it would not matter how they perished.

If that was the case, and if they miscalculated and stayed down too long, they would have run out of oxygen and perished.

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.