[
US
/ˈdaɪ/
]
[ UK /dˈaɪ/ ]
[ UK /dˈaɪ/ ]
VERB
-
languish as with love or desire
She dying for a cigarette
I was dying to leave -
cut or shape with a die
Die out leather for belts -
be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered
We almost died laughing during the show -
lose sparkle or bouquet
wine and beer can pall -
suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
Whosoever..believes in me shall never die -
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
The children perished in the fire
She died from cancer
The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
The patient went peacefully - to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
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disappear or come to an end
Their anger died
My secret will die with me! -
suffer or face the pain of death
Martyrs may die every day for their faith -
stop operating or functioning
The engine finally went
The coffee maker broke
The engine failed on the way to town
The car died on the road
her eyesight went after the accident
The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town -
feel indifferent towards
She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery
NOUN
- 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
- a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
How To Use die In A Sentence
- My generation was raised on a diet of stultifyingly tedious, but worthy accounts of embryology, typically very badly printed on what appeared to be rice paper.
- I have to find grass and bring it up to them, otherwise they'll die. Times, Sunday Times
- By adding the chlorides of strontian, uranium, potassium, sodium, iron, or copper to the liquid, various effects may be produced, and these bodies will be found to produce the same color on the plate that their flame gives to alcohol. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
- As a book about a nonoperational aircraft, Valkyrie will probably attract only a limited audience within the Air Force community.
- She is simply bartering goodies in return for comparative quietness.
- That's as it should be, as the newspaper has a global audience but not global printing presses.
- Consumers get incredibly upset when dieticians and researchers backtrack on previous findings, proclaiming that products once deemed healthy are now in question.
- The major problem is punters here expect a diet of top-class football along with decent grub. The Sun
- Rules exist to be violated, so that the ‘bastard’ may be more violently characterized and the audience engaged in revengeful fury.
- The screen is a bit of overkill because the audience is not that far from the center of action on the hot shop floor.