die
/daɪ/
Dictionary
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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