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as in died
to stop living
12 people perished in the plane crash
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as in disintegrated
chiefly British
to go through decomposition
after being left out in the summer heat, the milk perished and had to be thrown out
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Recent Examples of perished
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
27 June 2026
And because the war was still on, the arsenal was quickly rebuilt and brought back online while those who perished were placed in a mass grave in the Allegheny Cemetery, marked only today by one large stone, tucked away on the far side of the burial grounds.
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Christopher Derose,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
This month, park service staff have offered only minimal details about two deaths at California national parks, including a fatality Saturday at Yosemite in which a young man perished after falling from a nearly 600-foot waterfall.
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Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2026
One camper perished in her cabin.
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Mateo Rosiles,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
Not long after completing Dream Me a Dream, Zimmerman and Marie-Claire Lambert, his wife of 55 years and frequent creative partner, perished in a house fire.
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine,
Pitchfork,
22 June 2026
The names of those who perished were being withheld by authorities pending notification of relatives.
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Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
21 June 2026
In the wake of the tragedy, stories have started to emerge about the victims who perished in the crash.
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Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
17 June 2026
The two men perished during a tandem BASE jump in remote Mineral Bottom, the Grand County Sheriff’s Office (GCSO) told the Moab Sun News.
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Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
16 June 2026
Verb
The pallor of mortality is a reminder, for some, of the heat wave in the summer of 2003, when nearly fifteen thousand people perished in France.
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Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
27 June 2026
And because the war was still on, the arsenal was quickly rebuilt and brought back online while those who perished were placed in a mass grave in the Allegheny Cemetery, marked only today by one large stone, tucked away on the far side of the burial grounds.
—
Christopher Derose,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
This month, park service staff have offered only minimal details about two deaths at California national parks, including a fatality Saturday at Yosemite in which a young man perished after falling from a nearly 600-foot waterfall.
—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2026
One camper perished in her cabin.
—
Mateo Rosiles,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
Not long after completing Dream Me a Dream, Zimmerman and Marie-Claire Lambert, his wife of 55 years and frequent creative partner, perished in a house fire.
—
Stephen Thomas Erlewine,
Pitchfork,
22 June 2026
The names of those who perished were being withheld by authorities pending notification of relatives.
—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
21 June 2026
In the wake of the tragedy, stories have started to emerge about the victims who perished in the crash.
—
Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
17 June 2026
The two men perished during a tandem BASE jump in remote Mineral Bottom, the Grand County Sheriff’s Office (GCSO) told the Moab Sun News.
—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
16 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perished
Adjective
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Delegation meeting uplifted the departed and living Ald.
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Expect Marquise Lightfoot, a twitchy 235-pound edge rusher, and Mizzou transfer Damon Wilson to step in for the departed first-rounders.
Verb
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The extent of any aid package will have to match the emerging picture of how many have died, how many remain trapped under the rubble and how many Venezuelans will struggle yet further for food.
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The family of Binh Pham, one of the crash victims who later died at University Hospital in Columbia, has hired Wendt Law Firm.
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The meteor — which is thought to be a small chunk of a much larger asteroid — was probably too small and traveled too fast to survive atmospheric entry and instead disintegrated entirely, leaving no parts of it to fall to the ground in the form of meteorites.
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Any potential scoring opportunity in the fifth inning disintegrated after Dalton Rushing’s leadoff walk.
Adjective
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On a busy day like July 4, one shack might see two dozen lost kids.
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To make these work in complex environments, users want fewer exceptions, fewer lost assets and fewer human calls to rescue a confused machine.
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The most dangerous situation appeared to be on Barrington Avenue, west of East Dundee Village Hall, where a light, a utility pole and part of a parkway tree were felled by strong winds, leaving power lines dangling across the road.
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John Adams famously wrote to his wife, Abigail, that smallpox was killing 10 soldiers for every one felled in battle.
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While the timber has long since rotted away, the posts lined up to point directly at the rising sun during the summer solstice and the setting sun at the winter solstice — in the same way as Stonehenge.
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The storm hit Jamaica on August 12, splintering three hundred homes, and 90 percent of banana crops rotted to black in the post-storm humidity.
Adjective
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With dragons now extinct and the Targaryens less powerful, this buddy series focuses on more intimate and adventurous stories rather than the struggles for the Iron Throne.
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Grocery chains such as A&P and National Tea became extinct in these parts back in the 1970s.
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Remains of dogs too decomposed to be recovered were also found in the same field, the sheriff's office said.
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Every project should be decomposed into tasks, with explicit categorization of which are human, AI or hybrid.
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“Perished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perished. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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