“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
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break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad
stop operating or functioning
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die
suffer or face the pain of death
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Antonyms:
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be born
come into existence through birth
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abort
cease development, die, and be aborted
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asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate
be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
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buy it, pip out
be killed or die;
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drown
die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
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predecease
die before; die earlier than
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famish, starve
die of food deprivation
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fall
die, as in battle or in a hunt
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succumb, yield
be fatally overwhelmed
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strangle
die from strangulation
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change state, turn
undergo a transformation or a change of position or action