die
noun
1. a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
Similar word(s): dice
Definition categories: man–made, cube
2. a device used for shaping metal
Definition categories: man–made
3. a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods
verb
1. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- She died from cancer
Similar word(s): choke, conk, croak, decease, exit, expire, go, pass, perish
Definition categories: change, turn
2. suffer or face the pain of death
- Martyrs may die every day for their faith
Definition categories: perception, endure, suffer
3. be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
- We almost died laughing during the show
Definition categories: emotion, snap
4. stop operating or functioning
- The car died on the road
Similar word(s): break, fail, go
Definition categories: change
5. feel indifferent towards
- She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery
Definition categories: emotion, experience, feel
6. languish as with love or desire
Definition categories: emotion, ache, languish, pine, yearn, yen
7. cut or shape with a die
- Die out leather for belts
Definition categories: contact
8. to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
Definition categories: competition, play
9. lose sparkle or bouquet
Similar word(s): pall
Definition categories: change
10. disappear or come to an end
- Their anger died
- My secret will die with me!
Definition categories: change, disappear, vanish
11. suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
- Whosoever..believes in me shall never die
Definition categories: change
Sentences with die as a verb:
- She died with dignity.
- He died a hero's death.
- They died a thousand deaths.
- The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
- He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
- If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.
- My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
- to die to pleasure or to sin
- Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...