perished

/ ˈpɛrɪʃt /

adjective

1. informal,  (of a person, part of the body, etc) extremely cold

Example Sentences

But in the end it would not matter how they perished.

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If that was the case, and if they miscalculated and stayed down too long, they would have run out of oxygen and perished.

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Some perished after the fire — overwhelmed and confused by the trauma.

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

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

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