die
Meaning
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- To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- (slang) To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.
- To yearn intensely.
- To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- (colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
- To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
- 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 disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- (slang) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/daɪ/
Etymology
From Middle English deyen, from Old English dīeġan and Old Norse deyja, both from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną (“to die”). Displaced Old English sweltan, whence Modern English swelt.
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