die

verb dies · dying · died · die

1. intransitive To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away, Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day.
2. intransitive followed by of as an indication of direct cause; general use He died of malaria.
3. intransitive 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.
4. intransitive followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes He died for the one he loved.
5. archaic, intransitive followed by with as an indication of direct cause Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die with mockes, / Which is as bad as die with tickling.
6. intransitive, proscribed, sometimes followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from) I can't believe I just died to a turret!
7. intransitive followed by with as an indication of manner She died with dignity.
8. intransitive, in bare form to die in a certain form. Will I die a happy man?
9. transitive To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death). He died a hero's death.
10. slang To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation. Whenever my brother dies, he ragequits.
11. figuratively, intransitive To yearn intensely. I'm really dying to eat in that new restaurant.
12. idiomatic, intransitive, uncommon To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead. The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
13. figuratively, intransitive To become spiritually dead; to lose hope. He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
14. colloquial, excessive, intransitive To be mortified or shocked by a situation. If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.
15. excessive, figuratively, intransitive 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.
16. intransitive, of a machine To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality". My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
17. intransitive, of a computer program To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
18. intransitive, of a legislative bill or resolution 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.
19. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct. letting the secret die within his own breast
20. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. But it came to passe in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
21. often, with "to" To become indifferent; to cease to be subject. to die to pleasure or to sin
22. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
23. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
24. slang, of a stand up comedian or a joke To fail to evoke laughter from the audience. Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...

Similar: assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be like the the One, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord, bite the big one, bite the biscuit, bite the dust, buy the farm, buy it, cark it, cash in, cash in one's chips, check out, close one's eyes for the last time, code, conk out, croak, cross over, cross the Great Divide, cross the Styx, darken, decease, decompose, dematerialize, depart, disincarnate · Opposite: breathe, live, subsist, survive, be born, germinate, sprout, come back to life, reincarnate, rise from the dead

noun dies · dye

1. The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
2. A device for cutting into a specified shape.
3. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
4. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
5. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
6. also, plural An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit. The number of dies per wafer is basically the area of the wafer divided by the area of the die.
7. Any small cubical or square body. Some young creatures have learnt their letters and syllables, and the pronouncing and spelling of words, by having them pasted or written upon many little flat tablets or dies.

noun dice · dies · dye

1. An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance. Most dice are six-sided.
2. obsolete That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. […]For th'equall die of warre he well did know.

Similar: cube of chance, cube of fortune

noun dies · dye

1. obsolete Obsolete spelling of dye He hath carried his friendship to this man to a blameable length, by too long concealing facts of the blackest die.

verb dies · dying · died · dye

1. obsolete Obsolete spelling of dye Also no dyer shall die any cloth, except he die the cloth and the list with one colour, without tacking any bulrushes or such like thing upon the lists, upon pain to forfeit 40 s. for every cloth. And no person shall put to sale any cloth deceitfully dyed,

Similar: assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be like the the One, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord, bite the big one, bite the biscuit, bite the dust, buy the farm, buy it, cark it, cash in, cash in one's chips, check out, close one's eyes for the last time, code, conk out, croak, cross over, cross the Great Divide, cross the Styx, darken, decease, decompose, dematerialize, depart, disincarnate · Opposite: breathe, live, subsist, survive, be born, germinate, sprout, come back to life, reincarnate, rise from the dead

adverb dye

1. not comparable per day Clozapine 100 mg die a.m.

noun

1. abbreviation, derogatory, humorous, initialism, uncountable Initialism of diversity, inclusion, and equity.