die
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (11)dying, dies, died
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life“She died from cancer”“The children perished in the fire”“The patient went peacefully”“The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102”Synonyms: deceaseperishgoexitpass awayexpirepasskick the bucketcash in one's chipsbuy the farmconkgive-up the ghostdrop deadpop offchokecroaksnuff itMore general change state, turnMore specific starve, fall, drown, buy it, suffocate, succumb, abort, predeceaseSimilar fail
- suffer or face the pain of death“Martyrs may die every day for their faith”More general suffer, endureSimilar decease, perish
- be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame“I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered”“We almost died laughing during the show”More general break down, lose it
- stop operating or functioning“The engine finally went”“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”Synonyms: failgo badgive waygive outconk outgobreakbreak downMore general changeMore specific blow out, misfire, malfunction, crashSimilar break, decease
- feel indifferent towards“She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery”More general feel, experience
- languish as with love or desire“She's dying for a cigarette”“I was dying to leave”More general ache, yearn
- cut or shape with a die“Die out leather for belts”Synonyms: die out
- to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
- lose sparkle or bouquet“wine and beer can pall”Synonyms: pallbecome flat
- disappear or come to an end“Their anger died”“My secret will die with me!”
- suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)“Whosoever … believes in me shall never die”
Noun (3)dies
- a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbersSynonyms: diceType of cube, square blockKinds four-spot, six-spot, D4, five-spot, one-spot
- a device used for shaping metalType of shaping toolKinds blanking die, stamp
- a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rodsType of cutter, cutlery
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Translations
Verb to stop living
- Spanish
- morir
- French
- mourir
- German
- sterben
- Italian
- morire
- Portuguese
- morrer
- Turkish
- ölmek
- Russian
- умира́ть umirátʹ
- Arabic
- مَاتَ māta
- Chinese
- 死 sǐ
- Japanese
- 死ぬ shinu
36 more languages
- Dutch
- overlijden
- Polish
- umierać
- Swedish
- dö
- Greek
- πεθαίνω pethaíno
- Korean
- 죽다 jukda
- Indonesian
- mati
- Vietnamese
- chết
- Hungarian
- meghal
- Portuguese (PT)
- morrer
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 死 sǐ
- Albanian
- vdes
- Breton
- mervel
- Catalan
- morir
- Corsican
- more
- Czech
- umřít
- Danish
- dø
- Esperanto
- morti
- Estonian
- surema
- Finnish
- kuolla
- Georgian
- სიკვდილი siḳvdili
- Hebrew
- מֵת met
- Icelandic
- deyja
- Kurdish
- mirin
- Latvian
- mirt
- Lithuanian
- mirti
- Malagasy
- maty
- Norwegian
- dø
- Romanian
- muri
- Scottish Gaelic
- bàsaich
- Serbo-Croatian
- umrijeti
- Slovak
- umrieť
- Slovenian
- umreti
- Swahili
- kufa
- Walloon
- mori
- Welsh
- marw
- Yiddish
- שטאַרבן shtarbn
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. deyen, dien, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deyja; akin to Dan. döe, Sw. dö, Goth. diwan (cf. Goth. afd…jan to harass), OFries. d…ia to kill, OS. doian to die, OHG. touwen, OSlav. daviti to choke, Lith. dovyti to torment. Cf. Dead, Death.
1. To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; — said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.
To die by the roadside of grief and hunger.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
She will die from want of care.— Alfred Tennyson
2. To suffer death; to lose life.
In due time Christ died for the ungodly.— Rom. v. 6.
3. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
Letting the secret die within his own breast.— The Spectator
Great deeds can not die.— Alfred Tennyson
4. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
His heart died within, and he became as a stone.— 1 Sam. xxv. 37.
The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca.— The Tatler
5. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
6. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; — often with out or away.
Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness.— The Spectator
7. Architecture To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
8. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
To die in the last ditch, to fight till death; to die rather than surrender.
“There is one certain way,” replied the Prince [William of Orange] “ by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, — I will die in the last ditch.”— Hume (Hist. of Eng. ).
— To die out, to cease gradually; as, the prejudice has died out.
Synonyms: To expire; decease; perish; depart; vanish.
Origin: OE. dee, die, F. dé, fr. L. datus given, thrown, p. p. of dare to give, throw. See Date a point of time.
1. A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.
2. Any small cubical or square body.
Words... pasted upon little flat tablets or dies.— Henry Watts
3. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
Such is the die of war.— Edmund Spenser
4. Architecture That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
5. Machinery (a) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc. (b) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing. (c) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool.
Cutting die Mechanics, a thin, deep steel frame, sharpened to a cutting edge, for cutting out articles from leather, cloth, paper, etc. — The die is cast, the hazard must be run; the step is taken, and it is too late to draw back; the last chance is taken.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.<jargon> crash. Unlike crash, which is used primarily of hardware, this verb is used of both hardware and software.
See also go flatline, casters-up mode.
2.<electronics> Plural: dies. An unpackaged integrated circuit. [Jargon File]
(2002-12-09)
The Jargon File
Syn. crash. Unlike crash, which is used primarily of hardware, this verb is used of both hardware and software. See also go flatline, casters-up mode.
The Devil's Dictionary
A cube of cheese no larger than a die May bait the trap to catch a nibbling mie.