périr

Des milliers périssaient par la famine et par la peste.
Thousands perished from famine and pestilence.
Des milliers d'Israélites périssaient dans un effort désespéré pour défendre la ville.
Thousands were perishing in a last desperate defense of the city.
Les médicaments antiviraux étaient certes disponibles, mais les patients périssaient malgré tout.
Antiviral medicines had become available, but often the patients did not recover, despite the drugs.
Les archéologues nous disent que, dans la passé, quand les climats changeaient, les gens qui le pouvaient s'y adaptaient et que ceux qui ne pouvaient pas le faire périssaient.
Archaeologists tell us that, in the past, when the climates changed, people who could adapted and people who could not perished.
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