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perished

adjective as in decayed

adjective as in fallen

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Officials estimate that more than 6 million bats have perished across the U.S. from the syndrome as of 2012.

Local officials in the town of Chiva, near Valencia, said it was "impossible" to put a final figure on the number of people who have perished.

From BBC

They and others without access to willing doctors perished at a horrifying rate from self-abortions or operations performed in “dark, dingy apartments,” the documentary reports,

Titterington was one of the 429 sailors and Marines attached to the Oklahoma, who were killed during the attack, and one of the 2,400 who perished at Pearl Harbor.

That may be what caused the death of a 28-year-old Georgia woman who perished while physicians debated whether her pregnancy-related infection was severe enough to warrant operating.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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