die

(noun, verb)

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

Definition categories: man–made, cutlery, cutter

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...