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die

/daɪ/
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verb

  • To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
  • To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).

    "He died a hero's death."

  • To yearn intensely.

    "I'm dying for a packet of crisps."

  • To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.

    "The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother."

  • To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

    "He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him."

  • To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

    "If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die."

  • To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.

    "When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died."

  • (of a machine) To stop working, to break down.

    "My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning."

  • (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.
  • (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.

    "to die to pleasure or to sin"

  • 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..."

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