perish

1. Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life (synset 200359085)
   "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
   is a type of: change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
   subtypes:

   • abort - cease development, die, and be aborted
   • asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate - be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
   • buy it, pip out - be killed or die
   • drown - die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
   • predecease - die before; die earlier than
   • famish, starve - die of food deprivation
   • fall - die, as in battle or in a hunt
   • succumb, yield - be fatally overwhelmed
   same as: 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
   verb group:

   • break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad - stop operating or functioning
   • die - suffer or face the pain of death

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