perish

Huge numbers perished in the Holocaust, yet even immediately after the war Yiddish was the pre-eminent language among the world's Jews.

The global scientific consensus is that most coral reefs would perish at warming of 1.5C above preindustrial levels -- a threshold just years away.

Or patients who perished from treatable infections for lack of antibiotics and proper dressings for wounds.

A strength of “The Gales of November” is the way Mr. Bacon weaves in the stories of the crewmen who perished when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down.

The trees were sprouting green shoots and to the naked eye appeared healthy — the only sign of life on the side of the street where historic Janes Village homes burned and some neighbors perished.