perire (to lose life prematurely): interire (to cease to exist; stronger than perire, and used of living beings, or of things without life): occidere (to disappear; PROP., of living beings when they die, and figuratively, of beings without life; e.g., spes occidit): cadere, concidere (to sink to decay or ruin, of things; e.g., a state, a house, a family): tolli (of beings, to disappear) to perish in the waves, aqua mergi: to perish by shipwreck, naufragio perire or interire.