die.
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
Meaning & usage
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. followed by of as an indication of direct cause; general use
He died of malaria.
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. followed by from as an indication of direct cause; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences
He died from heart failure.
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes
He died for the one he loved.
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. followed by with as an indication of direct cause
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from)
I can't believe I just died to a turret!
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. followed by with as an indication of manner
She died with dignity.
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. to die in a certain form.
Will I die a happy man?
To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
He died a hero's death.
They died a thousand deaths.
To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.
Whenever my brother dies, he ragequits.
To yearn intensely.
I'm really dying to eat in that new restaurant.
I'm dying for a piss.
To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.
To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.
To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
Sorry I couldn't call you. My phone died.
To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
The proposed gas tax died after the powerful rural senator refused to let it out of committee.
To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
to die to pleasure or to sin
To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...
Where this word comes from
From Middle English deyen, probably from Old Norse deyja, from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną (“to die”). Displaced native Old English sweltan, whence Modern English swelt, and Old English steorfan, whence modern starve.
The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
A device for cutting into a specified shape.
A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
Any small cubical or square body.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French dé), from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dō (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Doublet of datum. Replaced Old English tasul, tesul (“die”), from Latin tessella (“die, cube”).
An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.
Most dice are six-sided.
I rolled the die and moved 2 spaces on the board.
That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French dé), from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dō (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Doublet of datum. Replaced Old English tasul, tesul (“die”), from Latin tessella (“die, cube”).
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Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin die (“[in a] day”), locative of Latin dies (“day”).
Obsolete spelling of dye.
Where this word comes from
Variant spelling.
Obsolete spelling of dye.
Where this word comes from
Variant spelling.
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