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verb (used without object), died, dy·ing.

to cease to live; undergo the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions; become dead.

(of something inanimate) to cease to exist: The laughter died on his lips.

to lose force, strength, or active qualities: Superstitions die slowly.

to cease to function; stop: The motor died.

to be no longer subject; become indifferent: to die to worldly matters.

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to pass gradually; fade or subside gradually (usually followed by away, out, or down): The storm slowly died down.

Theology. to lose spiritual life.

to faint or languish.

to suffer as if fatally: I'm dying of boredom!

10.

to pine with desire, love, longing, etc.: I'm dying to see my home again.

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to desire or want keenly or greatly: I'm dying for a cup of coffee.

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Verb phrases

12.

die away, (of a sound) to become weaker or fainter and then cease: The hoofbeats gradually died away.

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die down, to become calm or quiet; subside.

14.

die off, to die one after another until the number is greatly reduced: Her friends are dying off.

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die out,

to cease to exist; become extinct: Both lines of the family died out before the turn of the century.

to die away; fade; subside: The roar of the engines died out as the rocket vanished into the clouds.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

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Idioms

16.

die hard,

to die only after a bitter struggle.

to give way or surrender slowly or with difficulty: Childhood beliefs die hard.

17.

die standing up, Theater. (of a performance) to be received with silence rather than applause.

18.

never say die, never give up hope; never abandon one's efforts.

19.

to die for, stunning; remarkable: That dress is to die for.

Origin:
1150–1200; Middle English dien, deien < Old Norse deyja. Compare dead, death

Synonyms
1. expire, depart. Die, pass away (pass on), perish mean to relinquish life. To die is to become dead from any cause and in any circumstances. It is the simplest, plainest, and most direct word for this idea, and is used figuratively of anything that has once displayed activity: An echo, flame, storm, rumor dies. Pass away (or pass on) is a commonly used euphemism implying a con-tinuation of life after death: Grandfather passed away (passed on). Perish, a more literary term, implies death under harsh circumstances such as hunger, cold, neglect, etc.; figuratively, perish connotes utter extinction: Hardship caused many pioneers to perish. Ancient Egyptian civilization has perished.

Example Sentences

Three of your colleaugues died before your eyes, and three more were shot.

Sometimes, those who have died seem more alive than those who have not.

Because the body was found in a trench, researchers speculated earlier that the man died when he sought refuge from bad weather.

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Three of your colleaugues died before your eyes, and three more were shot.

Sometimes, those who have died seem more alive than those who have not.

Because the body was found in a trench, researchers speculated earlier that the man died when he sought refuge from bad weather.

Probably, people who has died would no longer care where they died, in the ocean or on the continent.

The lumbering beasts coexisted with the first humans for tens of thousands of years and then died off.

For some reason, some of them turned completely brown and died.

Mac died of complications due to pneumonia, his publicist said in a statement.

The soldier's family has struggled to find out exactly how he died.

No bigger than a stick of butter, a newborn panda died after its sleeping mother rolled onto the cub.

Over the course of the next few millennia a host of indigenous large-bodied mammals, such as the mammoth, died out.

Sara died the next day, and when the county coroner found blood in her brain, he declared her death a homicide.

Two made it to the morning, but one died the next day.

Fully half the horses and cattle, as well as three-quarters of the sheep died.

But the dead deserve to be treated with respect, however flawed or horrible the cause in which they died.

The poor chick wasn't able to break through the membrane inside its shell and sadly died.

Salusbury died at about the same time-possibly in the fire, or maybe from the plague.

Years of begging and bare subsistence followed until he died.

It is thought that he died in the attack along with his wife and bodyguards.

The moose was already severely wounded and probably would have died anyway.

The watermen want to keep up a tradition that died decades ago.

The plates of the man's skull were not fully fused, indicating he was a teenager when he died.

And then his wife and daughter died in an earthquake and his drawings were destroyed in a fire.

But he died before anyone knew if the experiment would succeed.

They would undoubtedly have killed your grandparents, had they not first died of something else.

The local coroner's office reported that he died of severe head injuries.

The oldest of the three men died when about twenty grams of the drug leaked into his digestive tract.

What's really fun is having double first cousins who are bipolarmy dfc died a couple years back.

The question of how he died has been a great mystery.

Evidence from autopsied brains of some of those who died also indicated reduced plaque formation.

These are the resting places of slaves who died more than two centuries ago.

They also can tell us something about the way those animals died and what happened to their bodies after death.

He died of heart failure brought on by water intoxication.

The animal died when the researchers counted its rings.

People have died because of germs in the food supply.

The event was the dedication of a cemetery for those who had died on those rolling fields.

One died at birth and another died from a viral infection.

Just three days after he died of pancreatic cancer, in a.

Over the next two years, thousands died a gruesome death from.

Scientific interest in the interaction between bears and salmon died down.

His father, who also smoked all his life, had one lung removed and later died of colon cancer.

The professor was eventually fired and almost immediately afterward died of a stroke brought on by the stress of it all.

Cahokia was born with a bang and died of unknown causes.

Richard died eight years later when chronic nephritis developed in his transplant.

They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died.

It's certainly not a surprise to us that the bats died.

He eventually died in peace-a rare ending for a pirate.

Hoku endured some rough days before he died last spring.

Einstein died before he had worked out the implications of his own brilliant ideas.

The midget may have died somewhere, but it may have not died in this box.

Four years later, his brother came down with the same illness, and a few years later a young niece died.

But the saola had been weakened by the whole ordeal and died shortly after the team arrived.

Two more died after being taken to a nearby farmhouse.

Heroic deeds-- notably, that of a schoolteacher who died saving the emperor's picture from a fire--embellished the curriculum.

One eye came from the mummified remains of a two-year-old boy who died a thousand years ago.

It appears that many intelligent hominin species evolved but for some reason they all died out.

In several cases, groups of whales and dolphins have run ashore and died in the vicinity of naval maneuvers involving sonar.

When my belief in my ability to start again died so did something in me.

Lots of people died to pirates, and lots of pirates died to the navies.

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noun

Machinery.

any of various devices for cutting or forming material in a press or a stamping or forging machine.

a hollow device of steel, often composed of several pieces to be fitted into a stock, for cutting the threads of bolts or the like.

one of the separate pieces of such a device.

a steel block or plate with small conical holes through which wire, plastic rods, etc., are drawn.

an engraved stamp for impressing a design upon some softer material, as in coining money.

singular of dice.

Architecture. dado (def. 1).

verb (used with object)

to impress, shape, or cut with a die.

Idiom

the die is cast, the irrevocable decision has been made; fate has taken charge: The die is cast—I can't turn back.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English de (in early Modern English taking the vowel of the plural form dice) < Old French de(i), presumbly < Latin datum given (neuter past participle of dare to give), perhaps in the derivative sense “put, placed,” hence “played, cast”

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Word Origin & History

die

early 14c. (as a plural), from O.Fr. de, of uncertain origin, perhaps from L. datum "given," pp. of dare (see date (1)), which, in addition to "give," had a secondary sense of "to play" (as a chess piece); or else from "what is given" (by chance or Fortune). Sense of "stamping

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block or tool" first recorded 1690s.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

die (dī)
v. died, dy·ing (dī'ĭng), dies

To cease living; become dead; expire.
To cease existing, especially by degrees; fade.

Slang Dictionary

die definition

in.
to “perish” (figuratively) from laughter or some other emotionally intense response. : The whole audience died laughing.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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