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Die   /daɪ/   Listen
Die

verb
(past & past part. died; pres. part. dying)
1.
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.  Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it.  "The children perished in the fire" , "The patient went peacefully" , "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
2.
Suffer or face the pain of death.
3.
Be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame.  "We almost died laughing during the show"
4.
Stop operating or functioning.  Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad.  "The car died on the road" , "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town" , "The coffee maker broke" , "The engine failed on the way to town" , "Her eyesight went after the accident"
5.
Feel indifferent towards.
6.
Languish as with love or desire.  "I was dying to leave"
7.
Cut or shape with a die.  Synonym: die out.
8.
To be on base at the end of an inning, of a player.
9.
Lose sparkle or bouquet.  Synonyms: become flat, pall.
10.
Disappear or come to an end.  "My secret will die with me!"
11.
Suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense).
noun
1.
A small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers.  Synonym: dice.
2.
A device used for shaping metal.
3.
A cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods.



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"Die" Quotes from Famous Books



... tears, Mrs. Knight inquired: "What will become of us? We can't live—Jim never does anything for us." In Peter's watery stare was abject fright. "Lorelei wouldn't let us suffer," he ventured, tremulously. "I'm sick. I may die any time, so the doctor says." He was indeed a changed man; that easy good humor that had been his most likable trait had been lost in ...
— The Auction Block • Rex Beach
... the degree of sympathy extended to a member or a class of the hive is exactly proportional to the utility of this member to the community. The working bees will kill themselves or die of hunger in order to nourish their queen, while in the autumn they ruthlessly massacre all the males or drones which have ...
— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel
... metaphysical persuasions. If I say 'I can cloy the hungry edge of appetite by bare imagination of a feast,' I try the experiment, and I fail. I imagine the feast, but I am hungry still: and if I persist in the experiment, I die. But what do we mean when we say that things are right or wrong whether I think them so or not, that the Moral Law exists outside me and independently of my thinking about it? Where and how does ...
— Philosophy and Religion - Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge • Hastings Rashdall
... Princess is pleased that her servant should die," returned the lady, "let her command some death less dreadful than enclosure in this horrid cavern. You know I dare not disobey you—I must go if you command me; but if I once enter, I ...
— Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia • Samuel Johnson
... Mark Twain who said that the first half-hour you were awfully afraid you would die, and the next you were awfully ...
— The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch • Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter


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