Die

Verb

 * 1)  To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
 * 2) Followed by of. General use.
 * 3) * 1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Penguin 1985, p. 87:
 * "What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver.
 * 1) * 2000, Stephen King, On Writing, Pocket Books 2002, p. 85:
 * In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.
 * 1) Followed by from. General use, though somewhat more common in medical or scientific contexts.
 * 2) * 1865, British Medical Journal, 4 Mar 1865, p. 213:
 * She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.
 * 1) * 2007, Frank Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune, Tor 2007, p. 191:
 * "Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb. . ."
 * 1) Followed by for. Often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes.
 * 2) * 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Simon & Schuster 1999, p. 232:
 * Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia.
 * 1) * 2003, Tara Herivel & Paul Wright (Eds.), Prison Nation, Routledge 2003, p. 187:
 * Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.
 * 1)  Followed by with. Now rare as indicating direct cause.
 * 2) * 1600, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, Scene 1:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1830, Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, Richards 1854, p. 337:
 * And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.
 * 1)  To cause a player character to die while controlling it.
 * I can't go to level four because I always die against the boss of level three.
 * 1)  To be cut off from family or friends.
 * The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
 * 1)  To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
 * He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
 * 1)  To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
 * If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.
 * 1)  to stop working, to break down.
 * My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
 * 1)  To have an orgasm.
 * 2) * 1598,, :
 * an in despite of all, dies for him.

Noun

 * 1) (plural: dice) A polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
 * 2) * 1748. David Hume. Enquiry concerning the human understanding. In: Wikisource. Wikimedia: 2007. § 46.
 * If a die were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter ;
 * 1) (plural: dies) The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
 * 2) (plural: dies) A device for cutting into a specified shape.
 * 3) (plural: dies) A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
 * 4) (plural: dies) An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
 * 5) (plural: dice or dies) A fragment of a completed integrated circuit wafer, among those produced by fracturing the wafer as specified in its design, that includes a portion that (unless defective) can provide the electronic function for which it was designed, but whose further mechanical subdivision would irreversibly impair that function.

Adverbs for Die
ultimately; unaccountably; wholly; utterly; valiantly; peacefully; sullenly; violently; gloriously; proudly; recently; providentiaily; stoically; pennilessly; invariably; haplessly; blissfully; huskily; respectively; honorably; mysteriously; quiveringly; holily; abruptly; shamefully; accidentally; religiously; rebelliously; precipitately.

Synonyms for Die
verb
 * bite the dust, buy the farm, check out, cross over, expire, succumb, give up the ghost, pass, pass away, pass on, be no more, cease to be, go to meet one's maker, be a stiff, push up the daisies, hop off the twig, kick the bucket, shuffle off this mortal coil, join the choir invisible, cease to live, perish
 * depart, decay,, decease, demise, wither, decline, vanish, recede, sink, wane.

noun
 * matrix, mold, stamp, form, punch, thread cutter, block, cube, perforator, prototype.

Antonyms for Die
begin, live, move, remain, last, endure, exist, continue, survive, grow, flourish

Derived terms

 * be dying for
 * die away
 * die down
 * diehard/die-hard/die hard
 * die off
 * die out
 * do-or-die
 * to die for
 * loaded dice
 * the die is cast
 * tool and die

Related terms

 * dead
 * death

Thesaurus
baluster, balustrade, banister, base, be all over, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be done for, be gone, be lost, be no more, be past, be wiped out, become extinct, become void, bird cage, blow over, bones, burin, burn out, caryatid, cash in, cast, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, cease to live, check out, colonnade, column, come to naught, come to nothing, conk, conk out, cop out, crap game, crap shooting, craps, croak, crooked dice, cubes, dado, decease, decline, dematerialize, demise, depart, depart this life, dice, die away, die out, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, do a fade-out, drop, dwindle, ebb, elapse, end, engraving tool, erode, etching ball, etching ground, etching needle, etching point, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, fade out, fail, fall, fall asleep, fall away, fall off, fizzle, fizzle out, flame out, flee, fly, footstalk, form, go, go away, go dead, go down, go downhill, go off, go out, graver, have it, have its time, have run out, hide, hit a slump, hit rock bottom, hit the skids, intaglio, ivories, jack, kick in, kick off, lapse, last, leave no trace, leave the scene, loaded dice, matrix, melt, melt away, mint, mold, needle, negative, newel-post, part, pass, pass away, pass on, pass out, pass over, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, peg out, perish, peter out, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, pip, plaything, plinth, point, poker dice, pole, pop, post, pretty, punch, put off mortality, queen-post, quit this world, reach the depths, retire from sight, return to dust, rocker, run down, run its course, run out, scorper, seal, shaft, shoe last, sink, sink away, slide, slip, slump, socle, sputter and stop, staff, stalk, stall, stamp, stanchion, stand, standard, stem, stick, stop breathing, style, subbase, subside, succumb, suffer an eclipse, surbase, teeth, template, touch bottom, toy, trunk, up and die, upright, vanish, vanish from sight, wane, waste, waste away, wear away, wear off, yield the ghost

Etymology 1
From dien:, deien:, from  deyja:, from  (compare  dø:,  döen:,  doyen:, douwen:, Old High German touwen:), from  (compare Old Norse dá 'catalepsy', Old Irish díth 'end, death', Old Church Slavonic daviti 'to strangle', Armenian di 'corpse', Avestan dvaidī 'we press').

Etymology 2


From dee: <  de: (Modern French dé:) <  datum: < datus:, the past participle of dare: <.

Verb

 * Ainu: ライ (ray), イサ ム ('isam)
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: moru
 * Belarusian: паміраць, памерці
 * Breton: mervel, radical marv-
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, koolema, kõngema, kärvama, hinge heitma, langema, lahkuma
 * Faroese: doyggja
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: (pethaíno), αποθνήσκω (apothnísko), αποβιώνω (apovióno)
 * Ancient Greek: ἀποθνήσκω (apothnesko)
 * Guaraní: mano/e'õ (t-)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:, , , sálast, týna lífinu, skylja við, , , lognast út af, falla frá, fara yfrum, verða bráðkvaddur
 * Ido: mortar
 * Ilocano: matay
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: Fuair bás
 * Isthmus Zapotec: rati
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmancî: mirin
 * Soranî: (mirdin)


 * Latin:
 * Latvian: mirt, nomirt
 * Macedonian:, починува, пцовисува (of animals)
 * Maltese:
 * Norwegian:, døy
 * Novial: mori
 * Old English:, forðferde
 * Persian:
 * Polish: umierać, umrzeć
 * Portuguese:, falecer
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch:
 * Russian:,  , помирать ,  ; скончаться ; сдыхать ,
 * Scots: dee
 * Scottish Gaelic: bàsaich,, eug
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Latin:
 * Seri: aaha (speaking with great respect)
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:, , skonať
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: matay
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu: చనిపోవు (chanipOvu), మరణించు (maraNiMchu), పరమపదించు (paramapadiMchu), కాలం చేయు (kaalaM chaeyu), గతించు (gatiMchu)
 * Thai:
 * Tupinambá: manõ/e'õ (t-)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: умирати, умерти , померти
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese:, mất, tử
 * Volapük: deadön
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: deagean, ferstjerre, stjerre
 * !Xóõ: ǀʻâa,


 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:


 * Finnish:
 * Swahili:


 * Danish: opgive
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Norwegian: dø
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: dö


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: dö


 * Danish: ophøre
 * Dutch: het laten afweten, het opgeven
 * Finnish:
 * Indonesian:


 * Kurdish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: dö

Noun

 * Afrikaans: gegee
 * Albanian:
 * Armenian: զառ (zaṙ)
 * Breton: diñs, diñsoù
 * Bulgarian: зар (zar)
 * Catalan: dau
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: (cubic),  (cubic), ĵetpluredro (polyhedral), ludpluredro (polyhedral)
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: კამათელი
 * German:
 * Greek: ζάρι (zári), ζάρια (zária) , κύβος (kývos) , κύβοι (kývoi)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: lud-kubo
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 賽子, 骰子 (さいころ, saikoró)
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 賽子, 骰子 (さいころ, saikoró)


 * Khmer: អាប៉ោង
 * Korean: 주사위 (jusawi)
 * Latin:, ,
 * Macedonian: ,
 * : 骰子 (shaizi)
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: (tas)
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: кость (kost’)
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: (kocka)
 * Latin:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: పాచిక (paachika)
 * Thai: ลูกเต๋า (looktao)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * West Frisian: dobbelstien
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * West Frisian: dobbelstien
 * West Frisian: dobbelstien


 * Dutch:, plint
 * Finnish: sokkeli
 * Interlingua: plyntho, socculo


 * Italian: plinto
 * Portuguese: plinto, soclo , soco
 * Slovene:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Italian: matrice


 * Polish: matryca
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovene: matrica, vrezilo


 * Bulgarian: щампа
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Interlingua: cuneo


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovene: štampiljka
 * Spanish:


 * Italian: piastrina

Anagrams

 * EDI
 * eid, 'eid, Eid
 * ide, IDE
 * IED

Article
die


 * 1) the (definite article)

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with Latin fello:, Sanskrit धयति:. Compare Danish (causative) dægge:, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌳𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽:.

Noun

 * 1) breast milk, mother's milk, when sucked from the breast

Verb

 * 1) suck (being nursed)

Etymology
A merger of thie:, the:, thia:, thiu: and similar forms of the demonstrative. As in ther:, der: it replaced the original masculine and feminine nominative forms from.

Determiner

 * 1)  Masculine, feminine or plural pronoun referring to a thing or a person, further away: that, those
 * 2) * die boom &mdash; that tree
 * 3) * die vrouw &mdash; that woman
 * 4) * die vensters &mdash; those windows

Pronoun

 * 1)  that one, he, she
 * 2)  Who, which, that.
 * 3) * Ik ken iemand die dat kan. &mdash; I know somebody who can do that.

Article

 * 1) The;
 * die Frau — “the woman”
 * die Männer — “the men”

Pronoun

 * 1)  That; which; who; whom; whose.
 * Ich kenne eine Frau, die das kann. — “I know a woman who can do that.”
 * 1)  This one; that one; these ones; those ones; she; her; it; they; them
 * die da — “that one (or she or they) there”

Noun

 * 1) A day.

Derived terms

 * De die in die: From day to day
 * Un die: One day, sometime
 * Le die sequente: The next day, the following day

Noun

 * 1)  ("day").
 * Sine die.
 * Without a day.

Pinyin syllable
die



Etymology
From thie:, thia:, from.

Pronoun

 * 1) that, that one

Determiner

 * 1) that
 * 2) the

Descendants

 * Dutch: ,

Article
die


 * 1) the