5
go away(verb, expression, phrasal verb, go, advance)
5
leave(verb, go, advance, remove, start)
5
melt away(verb, expression, phrasal verb, stop, drop)
5
putrefy(verb, beat, decline, crush, weaken)
4
be killed(verb, drop, take, go, decline)
4
bite the dust(verb, expression, idiom, decline, cease)
4
blighted
4
buy the farm(verb, expression, idiom, decline, decay)
4
cease to exist(verb, expression, idiom, go, pass)
4
check out(verb, expression, phrasal verb, drop, go)
4
flee(verb, go, withdraw, leave, abandon)
4
give-up the ghost
4
go under(verb, expression, phrasal verb, break, drop)
4
shrivel(verb, decline, fall, fail, diminish)
4
wane(verb, stop, drop, close, go)
4
waste away(verb, expression, decline, separate, fall)
3
breathe one's last(verb, expression, idiom, cease, live)
3
be done for(verb, expression, idiom, go, withdraw)
3
be gone(verb, go, withdraw, leave, abandon)
3
come to naught(expression, idiom, go, withdraw, leave)
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