die

/daɪ/

verb

  1. 1

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

  2. 2

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

    He died a hero's death.
  3. 3

    To yearn intensely.

    I'm dying for a packet of crisps.
  4. 4

    To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.

    The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
  5. 5

    To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

    He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
  6. 6

    To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

    If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.
  7. 7

    To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.

    When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.
  8. 8

    (of a machine) To stop working, to break down.

    My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
  9. 9

    (of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).

  10. 10

    To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.

  11. 11

    To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

  12. 12

    (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.

    to die to pleasure or to sin
  13. 13

    To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

  14. 14

    To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

  15. 15

    (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

    Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...

noun

  1. 1

    A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

    (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.

noun

  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

    (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.

  7. 7

    Any small cubical or square body.

noun

  1. 1

    A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.

  2. 2

    Any hue, color, or blee.

verb

  1. 1

    To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

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