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Die

verb
(past & past part. died; pres. part. dying)
1.
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.  Synonyms: 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.  "The children perished in the fire" , "The patient went peacefully" , "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
2.
Suffer or face the pain of death.
3.
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"
4.
Stop operating or functioning.  Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad.  "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"
5.
Feel indifferent towards.
6.
Languish as with love or desire.  "I was dying to leave"
7.
Cut or shape with a die.  Synonym: die out.
8.
To be on base at the end of an inning, of a player.
9.
Lose sparkle or bouquet.  Synonyms: become flat, pall.
10.
Disappear or come to an end.  "My secret will die with me!"
11.
Suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense).
noun
1.
A small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers.  Synonym: dice.
2.
A device used for shaping metal.
3.
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.



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"Die" Quotes from Famous Books



... about forming a library, you should consider in what sort of atmosphere, of your own or your friends' creation, it is likely to be sold hereafter. You ought almost to be able to calculate how celebrated you will die. ...
— The Book-Collector • William Carew Hazlitt
... the true reason your armies are here? Are you willing to die to compel the Russian people to accept your ideas of government? Are you willing to have your comrades tortured to ...
— Jimmie Higgins • Upton Sinclair
... back is arched, the appetite poor, the mucous membranes and skin are pale and the hind parts soiled by the diarrhoeal discharge. More acute symptoms than the above sometimes occur. The disease may last from a few days to several weeks. A large percentage of the affected animals die. ...
— Common Diseases of Farm Animals • R. A. Craig, D. V. M.
... books, do not understand them, the great despise, the fashionable may ridicule them: but the author has created himself an interest in the heart of the retired and lonely student of nature, which can never die. Persons of this class will still continue to feel what he has felt: he has expressed what they might in vain wish to express, except with glistening eye and faultering tongue! There is a lofty philosophic tone, a thoughtful humanity, infused into ...
— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin
... on foot we must pack guns and grub—and there's my gold-dust. Fifty pounds or more! It's yours, Joan.... You'll need it all. You love pretty clothes and things. And now I'll get them for you or—or die." ...
— The Border Legion • Zane Grey


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