die

1. 1

   To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.intransitive

   • Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away, Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day.
   • The cheeks drop in; the body bows; Man dies: nor is there hope in dust: […]
2. 2

   To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.; followed by of as an indication of direct cause; general useintransitive

   • He died of malaria.
3. 3

   To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.; followed by from as an indication of direct cause; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciencesintransitive

   • He died from heart failure.
4. 4

   To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.; followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causesintransitive

   • He died for the one he loved.
5. 5

   To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.; followed by with as an indication of direct causearchaicintransitive

   • 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.
   • And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.
6. 6

   To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.; followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from)intransitiveproscribedsometimes

   • I can't believe I just died to a turret!
7. 7

   To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.; followed by with as an indication of mannerintransitive

   • She died with dignity.
8. 8

   To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.; to die in a certain form.intransitive

   • Will I die a happy man?
9. 9

   To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).transitive

   • He died a hero's death.
   • They died a thousand deaths.
10. 10

    To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.slang

    • Whenever my brother dies, he ragequits.

syn. assume room temperature · auger in · be called home · be gathered to one's fathers · be like the the One · be no more · be with Jesus · be with the Lord · bite the big one · bite the biscuit · bite the dust · buy the farm

ant. breathe · live · subsist · survive · be born · germinate · sprout · come back to life

1. 1

   The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.

2. 2

   A device for cutting into a specified shape.

3. 3

   A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)

4. 4

   A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.

5. 5

   An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.

6. 6

   An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.alsoplural

   • The number of dies per wafer is basically the area of the wafer divided by the area of the die.
   • Once the wafer has undergone the wafer-probe test, it is separated into individual dice by sawing or scribing and breaking. The dice are visually inspected, sorted, and readied for assembly into packages.
7. 7

   Any small cubical or square body.

   • Some young creatures have learnt their letters and syllables, and the pronouncing and spelling of words, by having them pasted or written upon many little flat tablets or dies.

1. 1

   An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.

   • Most dice are six-sided.
   • I rolled the die and moved 2 spaces on the board.
2. 2

   That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.obsolete

   • […]For th'equall die of warre he well did know.

syn. cube of chance · cube of fortune

1. 1

   Obsolete spelling of dye.alt-ofobsolete

   • He hath carried his friendship to this man to a blameable length, by too long concealing facts of the blackest die.

1. 1

   Obsolete spelling of dye.alt-ofobsolete

   • Also no dyer shall die any cloth, except he die the cloth and the list with one colour, without tacking any bulrushes or such like thing upon the lists, upon pain to forfeit 40 s. for every cloth. And no person shall put to sale any cloth d

syn. assume room temperature · auger in · be called home · be gathered to one's fathers · be like the the One · be no more · be with Jesus · be with the Lord · bite the big one · bite the biscuit · bite the dust · buy the farm

ant. breathe · live · subsist · survive · be born · germinate · sprout · come back to life

1. 1

   per daynot-comparable

   • Clozapine 100 mg die a.m.