Etimology
From Middle English deyen, from Old English dīeġan and Old Norse deyja, both from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną (“to die”). Displaced Old English sweltan, whence Modern English swelt.
verb
die (third-person singular simple present dies, present participle dying, simple past and past participle died)
(intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
(transitive) To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
(video games, slang) To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.
(intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
(intransitive, uncommon, idiomatic) To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
(intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
(intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
(intransitive, figurative, hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
(intransitive, of a machine) To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
(intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
(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.
To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
(often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
(architecture) 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.
(of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
Examples
Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away,Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day.
The cheeks drop in; the body bows;Man dies: nor is there hope in dust: […]
He died of malaria.
"What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver […] .
In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.
He died from heart failure.
She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.
"Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb […] "
He died for the one he loved.
Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war.
Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.
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.
And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.
I can't believe I just died to a turret!
Dr Thomas concluded she had died to a blow to the head, which led to a bleed on the brain, probably a fall and had hit her head hard on the wooden bedpost, as there was blood on the bedpost.
She died with dignity.
He died a hero's death.
They died a thousand deaths.
[…] he chose instead to suffer even greater personal pain, with unimaginable fortitude and resolve, albeit for a shorter time. Thus he died a small death, in order to benefit the living. Similarly, a small and voluntary death was died by Socrates.
Of course, Nazis are not present in this game. Instead, we have animals that will try to cover you with dirt. As soon as you get too dirty, you will die.
Oh look, I just died. […] I missed that jump again! That was dumb! Hey, I just died on the same freakin' Zinger.
Whenever my brother dies, he ragequits.
I'm dying for a packet of crisps.
I'm dying for a piss.
Yes, and his ill conditions; and in despite of all, dies for him.
I could see that he was dying, dying for a cigarette, dying for a fix maybe, dying for a little bit of freedom, but trapped in a hospital bed and a sick body.
The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
"My dad […] beat us until we couldn't sit down." […] "What about your mother?" […] "She's alive. […] My aunt visits her once a year, but I don't ask about my mother. She died to me the day she chose my father over protecting us." Luke's voice hitched with emotion.
"You haven't been my son since you were ten years old. That boy died to me the day he ran away. I don't know you. You are merely a shell that resembles someone I used to know, but you are dead to me. You are the bringer of pain and death. Leave me be. Leave me with my son, Jyosh." "Mother..." Barlun pleaded.
He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
Do you know that I went down / To the ground / Landed on both my broken-hearted knees... / […] I didn't even cry / 'Cause pieces of me had already died
If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.
When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.
I literally died when I saw that.
My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
Sorry I couldn't call you. My phone died.
My battery died and my charger was at home.
The proposed gas tax died after the powerful rural senator refused to let it out of committee.
letting the secret die within his own breastThe spelling has been modernized.
The spelling has been modernized.
Great deeds cannot die.
Through all the Worlds are sounds, the noises of moving, and the echoes of voices and song; but upon the River is no sound ever heard, for there all echoes die.
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.
When the truth is found to be lies / And all the joy within you dies / Don't you want somebody to love? / Don't you need somebody to love?
to die to pleasure or to sin
Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...
Related words
synonyms
(to stop living): assume room temperature, bite the dust, bite the big one, buy the farm, check out, code, cross over, cross the river, decompose, dematerialize, expire, succumb, give up the ghost, pass, pass away, pass on, be no more, meet one's maker, be a stiff, push up the daisies, hop off the twig, kick the bucket, shuffle off this mortal coil, join the choir invisible
See also Thesaurus:die
related terms
dead
death
buried
bury
Etimology
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”).
noun
die (plural dies)
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.
(semiconductors, plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
Any small cubical or square body.
Examples
The number of dies per wafer is basically the area of the wafer divided by the area of the die.
Once the wafer has undergone the wafer-probe test, it is separated into individual dice by sawing or scribing and breaking. The dice are visually inspected, sorted, and readied for assembly into packages.
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
die (plural dice or (nonstandard) dies)
An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.
(obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
Examples
Most dice are six-sided.
I rolled the die and moved 2 spaces on the board.
If a Dye were mark’d with one Figure or Number of Spots on four Sides, and with another Figure or Number of Spots on the two remaining Sides, ’twould be more probable, that the former ſhould turn up than the latter;
When you roll two dies—or three, or four—the odds of obtaining a specific number becomes complex in a logarithmic progression.
We roll two dies repeatedly until we get the first double.
Roll two dies 24 times. What is the probability of rolling at least one double 6?
When this creature enters the battlefield, roll a six-sided die. You gain life equal to the result.
[…] For th'equall die of warre he well did know.
Related words
synonyms
cube of chance
cube of fortune
Etimology
Variant spelling.
noun
die (plural dies)
Obsolete spelling of dye
Examples
He hath carried his friendship to this man to a blameable length, by too long concealing facts of the blackest die.
verb
die (third-person singular simple present dies, present participle dying, simple past and past participle died)
Obsolete spelling of dye
Examples
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,
To die wool with madder, prepare a fresh liquor, and when the water is come to a heat to bear the hand, put in half a pound of the finest grape madder for each pound of wool;
To die Wool and Woollen Cloths of a Blue Colour. One part of indigo, in four parts concentrated sulphuric acid, dissolved; then add one part of dry carbonate of potash, [...]