perish

Definition of perish

Verbs

pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
"The children perished in the fire"
Synonyms:
buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, pop off, snuff it
break, break down, conk out, fail, give out, give way, go bad
stop operating or functioning
Antonyms:
be born
come into existence through birth
Types:
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abort
cease development, die, and be aborted
asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate
be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
strangle
die from strangulation
buy it, pip out
be killed or die;
drown
die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
predecease
die before; die earlier than
famish, starve
die of food deprivation
fall
die, as in battle or in a hunt
succumb, yield
be fatally overwhelmed
Type of:
change state, turn
undergo a transformation or a change of position or action

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