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| Main Entry: | perish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | die, decline, decay |
| Synonyms: | bite the dust*, buy the farm*, cease, check out*, collapse, corrupt, croak, crumble, decease, decompose, demise, depart, disappear, disintegrate, end, expire, fall, go, go under, kick the bucket*, pass, pass away, rot, succumb, vanish, waste*, wither, OD, be destroyed, be killed, be lost, break down, give up the ghost, lose life, pass on |
| Antonyms: | revive, give birth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | decayed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rotten, falling apart |
| Synonyms: | addled, bad, carrion, effete, putrid, rank, ruined, spoiled, wasted, withered, carious, corroded, decomposed, gangrenous, moldered, overripe, perished, putrefied, putrescent, riddled, rotted |
| Antonyms: | flourishing, growing, improving, developing, germinating, ripening |
| Main Entry: | nonexistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictional, not real |
| Synonyms: | absent, airy, baseless, blank, chimerical, dead, defunct, departed, dreamlike, dreamy, empty, ethereal, extinct, flimsy, gone, groundless, hypothetical, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, insubstantial, legendary, lost, missing, mythical, negative, null, null and void*, shadowy, tenuous, unreal, unsubstantial, vacant, vague, vaporous, void, extinguished, fancied, few and far between, gossamery, hallucinatory, imponderable, passed away, passed on, perished, ungrounded, without foundation |
| Antonyms: | actual, existing, real, true, existent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dead |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | no longer alive |
| Synonyms: | asleep, bereft of life, bloodless, bought the farm, breathless, buried, cadaverous, checked out, cold, cut off, deceased, defunct, departed, done for*, erased, expired, extinct, gone, gone to meet maker, gone to reward, inanimate, inert, late, lifeless, liquidated, mortified, no more, not existing, offed, out of one's misery, passed away, perished, pushing up daisies, reposing, resting in peace, spiritless, stiff, unanimated, wasted |
| Antonyms: | alive, animated, being, existent, existing, live, living, subsisting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rotten |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | decayed, decaying |
| Synonyms: | bad, corrupt, crumbling, disgusting, fetid, foul, gross, loathsome, loud, mephitic, moldy, noisome, noxious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, rotting, sour, spoiled, stale, stinking, strong, tainted, touched, unsound, bad-smelling, corroded, crumbled, decomposed, decomposing, disintegrated, disintegrating, fecal, feculent, festering, infected, moldering, overripe, perished, polluted, purulent, pustular, putrescent, putrified, smelling |
| Antonyms: | fresh, good, new, pleasant, undecayed |
| Main Entry: | fallen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dead |
| Synonyms: | casualty, lost, slain, killed, perished, slaughtered |
| Main Entry: | lost |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extinct, destroyed |
| Synonyms: | bygone, dead, dissipated, forgotten, gone, lapsed, misspent, obliterated, obsolete, out-of-date, past, ruined, wasted, wrecked, abolished, annihilated, consumed, demolished, devastated, eradicated, exterminated, frittered, misused, perished, squandered, unremembered, wiped out |
| Antonyms: | alive, existing, living, existent |
| Main Entry: | crumble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break or fall into pieces |
| Synonyms: | break up, collapse, crumb, crush, decay, decompose, degenerate, deteriorate, disintegrate, dissolve, fragment, go to pieces, granulate, grind, molder, perish, powder, pulverize, putrefy, triturate, tumble |
| Antonyms: | build, put together |
| Main Entry: | decay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deteriorate, crumble |
| Synonyms: | atrophy, blight, break up, collapse, corrode, curdle, decline, decompose, defile, degenerate, depreciate, discolor, disintegrate, dissolve, dwindle, fade, fail, lessen, mildew, mold, molder, mortify, perish, pollute, putrefy, rot, sap, shrivel, sicken, sink, slump, spoil, suppurate, turn, wane, weaken, wither, be impaired, become contaminated, dry-rot, get worse, go bad, go to seed, go to the dogs, hit rock bottom, hit the skids, pejorate, putresce, reach depths, waste away, wear away |
| Antonyms: | build, develop, flourish, germinate, grow, improve, ripen, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | decease |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass away; expire |
| Synonyms: | cease, check out*, croak*, deep six, depart, die, drop, go, pass, pass away, pass over, perish, succumb, buy a one-way ticket, call off all bets, cool off, pass on |
| Notes: | decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning |
| Antonyms: | bear, be born |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | depart |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | leave, retreat |
| Synonyms: | abandon, abdicate, absent, beat it*, blast off*, cut out*, decamp, desert, disappear, emigrate, escape, evacuate, exit, go, hit the road*, migrate, part, perish, pull out, quit, remove, retire, sally forth*, scram*, secede, shove off*, split*, start, tergiversate, troop*, vacate, vanish, withdraw, cut and run, get away, git, go away, go forth, hit the bricks, hit the trail, make a break, march out, move on, move out, say goodbye, set forth, slip away*, start out, take leave |
| Antonyms: | arrive, come, enter |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | die |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass away; stop living |
| Synonyms: | be no more, be taken, breathe one's last, cease to exist, conk*, croak*, decease, demise, depart, drop, drop off, drown, expire, finish, give up the ghost, go way of all flesh, kick the bucket*, perish, relinquish life, rest in peace, succumb, suffocate |
| Antonyms: | be born, begin, live |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disappear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | vanish; cease |
| Synonyms: | abandon, abscond, clear, decamp, depart, die, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, ebb, end, escape, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, flee, fly, go, leave, melt, pass, pass away, perish, recede, retire, retreat, sink, vacate, vamoose*, wane, withdraw, be done for, be gone, be lost, be no more, be swallowed up, cease to exist, come to naught, dematerialize, die out, drop out of sight, end gradually, evanish, fade away, go south, leave no trace, melt away, take flight |
| Antonyms: | appear, arrive, come in |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dissolve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disappear, disintegrate |
| Synonyms: | break up, crumble, decline, decompose, diffuse, disband, disperse, dissipate, dwindle, evanesce, evaporate, fade, perish, separate, vanish, break down, break into pieces, dilapidate, melt away, unmake, waste away |
| Antonyms: | appear, assemble, integrate, put together, unite |
| Main Entry: | expire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come to an end |
| Synonyms: | bite the dust*, cease, close, conclude, croak*, decease, depart, die, elapse, end, finish, go, kick the bucket*, lapse, pass, pass away, pass over, perish, quit, run out, stop, strike out*, terminate, buy it, cash in chips, pass on, up and die |
| Antonyms: | bear, begin, commence, start |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dwindle, die out |
| Synonyms: | abate, attenuate, clear, decline, deteriorate, dim, diminish, disappear, disperse, dissolve, droop, ebb, evanesce, evaporate, fail, fall, flag, fold, hush, languish, lessen, melt, moderate, perish, peter out*, quiet, shrivel, sink, taper, thin, tire, vanish, wane, weaken, wilt, wither, deliquesce, die away, die on vine, etiolate, evanish, fag out, melt away, poop out*, rarefy, slack off*, tucker out, waste away |
| Antonyms: | enhance, improve, recover, strengthen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fall |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be overthrown by an enemy; surrender |
| Synonyms: | back down, bend, capitulate, die, drop, give in, go down, go under, obey, perish, resign, slump, submit, succumb, yield, be casualty, be destroyed, be killed, be lost, be taken, defer to, eat dirt, fall to pieces, give up, give way, lie down, pass into enemy hands |
| Antonyms: | advance, attain, overcome, overthrow, reach, win |
| Main Entry: | go |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | die, collapse |
| Synonyms: | bend, break, cave, conclude, consume, crumble, decease, decline, demise, depart, deplete, devour, dissipate, drop, exhaust, expend, expire, fail, finish, fritter, give, pass away*, perish, run through*, spend, squander, succumb, terminate, waste, weaken, worsen, yield, fold up, pass on, use up |
| Antonyms: | create, be born |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cease |
| Synonyms: | blow over*, close, decease, demise, depart, die, disappear, discontinue, dissolve, drop, dwindle, ebb, end, evaporate, expire, fade, go, pass away, perish, peter out*, stop, succumb, terminate, vanish, wane, cash in, melt away |
| Antonyms: | live |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pass away |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | die |
| Synonyms: | bite the dust, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, cease living, croak, decease, demise, depart, die, drop, expire, kick the bucket, meet one's maker, pass on, perish, succumb |
| Antonyms: | be born, live |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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