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Definition of Die
1. Verb. Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life. "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
Specialized synonyms: Abort, Asphyxiate, Stifle, Suffocate, Buy It, Pip Out, Drown, Predecease, Famish, Starve, Fall, Succumb, Yield
Generic synonyms: Change State, Turn
Related verbs: Break, Break Down, Conk Out, Fail, Give Out, Give Way, Go, Go Bad
Derivative terms: Decease, Decedent, Death, Death, Death, Death, Death, Death, Exit, Expiration, Going, Passing
Antonyms: Be Born
Also: Die Down, Die Down, Die Off, Die Out
2. Noun. A small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers.
Generic synonyms: Cube, Square Block
Specialized synonyms: Five, Five-spot, Four, Four-spot, One-spot, Six, Six-spot
Derivative terms: Dice, Dice
3. Verb. Suffer or face the pain of death. "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"
Generic synonyms: Endure, Suffer
Derivative terms: Death, Death, Death, Death, Death, Death
4. Noun. A device used for shaping metal.
5. Verb. 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"
6. Noun. 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.
7. Verb. Stop operating or functioning. "These cars won't die "; "Her eyesight went after the accident"
Generic synonyms: Change
Related verbs: Break, 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
Specialized synonyms: Crash, Go Down, Blow, Blow Out, Burn Out, Misfire, Malfunction, Misfunction
Derivative terms: Breakable, Breakdown, Failure
8. Verb. Feel indifferent towards. "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"
9. Verb. Languish as with love or desire. "I was dying to leave"
10. Verb. Cut or shape with a die. "Die out leather for belts"
11. Verb. To be on base at the end of an inning, of a player.
12. Verb. Lose sparkle or bouquet. "Wine and beer can pall"
13. Verb. Disappear or come to an end. "The business is going to die "; "My secret will die with me!"
14. Verb. Suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense). "Whosoever..believes in me shall never die"
Definition of Die
1. v. i. 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.
2. n. 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.
Definition of Die
1. Verb. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. ¹
2. Verb. (figuratively) To yearn intensely. ¹
3. Verb. (video games) To cause the death of a player character while controlling it. ¹
4. Verb. To be cut off by family or friends utterly, as if dead. ¹
5. Verb. (figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope. ¹
6. Verb. (colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation. ¹
7. Verb. (of a machine) to stop working, to break down. ¹
8. Verb. (of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition). ¹
9. Noun. (''plural:'' dice) A polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance. ¹
10. Noun. (''plural:'' dies) The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth. ¹
11. Noun. (''plural:'' dies) A device for cutting into a specified shape. ¹
12. Noun. (''plural:'' dies) A mold for forming metal or plastic objects. ¹
13. Noun. (''plural:'' dies) An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals. ¹
14. Noun. (''plural:'' dice ''or'' dies) A fragment of a completed integrated circuit wafer, among those produced by fracturing the wafer as specified in its design, that includes a portion that (unless defective) can provide the electronic function for which it was designed, but whose further mechanical subdivision would irreversibly impair that function. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Die
1. to cut with a die (a device for shaping material) [v DIED, DIEING, DIES] / to cease living [v DIED, DYING, DIES]
Medical Definition of Die
1. 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." (Macaulay) "She will die from want of care." (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." (Spectator) "Great deeds can not die." (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." (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." (Spectator) 7. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. Synonym: To expire, decease, perish, depart, vanish. Origin: OE. Deyen, dien, of Scand. Origin; cf. Icel. Deyja; akin to Dan. Doe, Sw. Do, Goth. Diwan (cf. Goth. Afdjan to harass), OFries. Dia to kill, OS. Doian to die, OHG. Touwen, OSlav. Daviti to choke, Lith. Dovyti to torment. Cf. Dead, Death. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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