1. Cease to live
   "She died from cancer";
   - decease [archaic], perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket [informal], cash in one's chips [informal], buy the farm [N. Amer, informal], conk [informal], give up the ghost [informal], drop dead [informal], pop off [informal], croak [informal], snuff it [informal], cash in [informal], cop it [Brit, informal], flatline [informal], pop one's clogs [informal], pass on
    
2. Stop operating or functioning
   "The car died on the road";
   - fail, go bad, give way, give out, conk out [informal], go, break, break down, pack up [Brit, informal], give up the ghost [informal]
    
3. Disappear or come to an end
   "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!"
    
4. Suffer or face the pain of death
   "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"
    
5. Be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
   "I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered"; "We almost died laughing during the show"
    
6. Feel indifferent towards
   "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"
    
7. Languish as with love or desire
   "She's dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave"
    
8. Lose sparkle or bouquet
   "The champagne had died in the open bottle";
   - pall, become flat
    
9. (religion) suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
   "Whosoever … believes in me shall never die"
    
10. Cut or shape with a die
    "Die out leather for belts";
    - die out
     
11. (baseball) to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
    "Two runners died on base in the ninth inning"

1. A small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
   "He rolled the die, hoping for a lucky seven";
   - dice
    
2. A device used for shaping metal
   "The metalworker used a die to stamp out uniform shapes"
    
3. A cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws, bolts, pipes or rods
   "He used a die to create threads on the metal rod"
    
4. A block of metal or wood with a design engraved or embossed on it, used for stamping coins, medals, or other objects
   "The mint created a new die for the commemorative coin"
    
5. (architecture) a cube-shaped part of a pedestal between the base and the cornice
   "The architect incorporated an ornate die into the column design"

Sounds like: dewy, Deweye, dy

Derived forms: dying, died, dies

Type of: ache, break down, change, change state, cube, cut out, cutter, cutting tool, disappear, endure, experience, feel, go away, lose it [informal], pine, play, shaping tool, snap, square block, suffer, turn, vanish, yearn, yen

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