die meaning
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[daɪ] 
US WDie
- Die usually refers to the cessation of life. Die may also refer to:
- NounPLdiesPLdice
- (plural: dice) A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
- (plural: dies) The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
- (plural: dies) 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.).
- (plural: dies) A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- (plural: dies) An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- (electronics) (plural: dice or dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
- Any small cubical or square body.
- OBS That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
- (plural: dice) A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
- VerbSGdiesPRdyingPT, PPdied
- VI To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- "What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver.
- She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.
- 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.
- 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.
- She died with dignity.
- VT To stop living and undergo (a specified death).
- He died a hero's death.
- They died a thousand deaths.
- VI (figuratively) To yearn intensely.
- VI IDI To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.
- The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
- VI (figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
- VI COL To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.
- VI (of a machine) to stop working, to break down.
- My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
- VI (of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- to die to pleasure or to sin
- (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.
- Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...
- VI To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- At least he didn't suffer when he died in the car crash.
- He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay.
- It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- She preferred to keep to herself after her husband died.
- She got through the war, but cracked up when her sister died.
- Since I don't believe in reincarnation, I believe that the only way to eliminate suffering is to die.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Meaning of die for the defined word.
Grammatically, this word "die" is a noun, more specifically, a nouns with irregular plural and a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Nouns with irregular plurals
- Countable nouns
- Nouns with irregular plurals
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Nouns
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