die

Meanings

• a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
• a device used for shaping metal
• 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
• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
  • "She died from cancer"
• suffer or face the pain of death
  • "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"
• 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"
• stop operating or functioning
  • "The car died on the road"
• feel indifferent towards
  • "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"
• languish as with love or desire
• cut or shape with a die
  • "Die out leather for belts"
• to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
• lose sparkle or bouquet
• disappear or come to an end
  • "Their anger died"
  • "My secret will die with me!"
• suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
  • "Whosoever..believes in me shall never die"

Synonyms

become flat, break, break down, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, conk out, croak, decease, dice, die out, drop dead, exit, expire, fail, give out, give way, give-up the ghost, go, go bad, kick the bucket, pall, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it