die
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dī
ipa: /daɪ/
ipa: [daj]
ipa: [dɑj]
ipa: [dɑj]
ipa: [daj]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [dəj]
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: dye
homophone: Di
homophone: Dai
homophone: daye
Forms: form: dies
form: dying
form: died
form: died
form: dye
Etymology: Variant spelling.
Senses: examples: text: Also no dyer shall die any cloth, except he die the cloth and the list with one colour, without tacking any bulrushes or such like thing upon the lists, upon pain to forfeit 40 s. for every cloth. And no person shall put to sale any cloth deceitfully dyed,
ref: 1739, John Cay, An abridgment of the publick statutes in force and use from Magna Charta, in the ninth year of King Henry III, to the eleventh year of his present Majesty King George II, inclusive, Drapery, XXVII. Sect. 16
text: To die wool with madder, prepare a fresh liquor, and when the water is come to a heat to bear the hand, put in half a pound of the finest grape madder for each pound of wool;
ref: 1813, James Haigh, The Dier's Assistant in the Art of Dying Wool and Woollen Goods:
text: To die Wool and Woollen Cloths of a Blue Colour. One part of indigo, in four parts concentrated sulphuric acid, dissolved; then add one part of dry carbonate of potash, [...]
ref: 1827, John Shepard, The artist & tradesman's guide: embracing some leading facts:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of dye.
Synonyms: word: assume room temperature
word: auger in
word: be called home
word: be gathered to one's fathers
topics: biblical
religion
lifestyle
word: be no more
word: be with Jesus
word: be with the Lord
word: bite the big one
word: bite the biscuit
word: bite the dust
word: buy the farm
word: buy it
word: cark it
word: cash in
word: cash in one's chips
word: check out
word: close one's eyes for the last time
word: code
word: conk out
word: croak
word: cross over
word: cross rainbow bridge
word: cross the Great Divide
word: cross the Styx
word: decease
word: decompose
word: dematerialize
word: depart
word: disincarnate
word: draw one's last breath
word: drop off the hooks
word: exit
word: expire
word: flatline
word: forfare
word: get to be like the one
word: give one's all
word: give up the ghost
word: go for a burton
word: go gentle into that good night
word: go out
word: go over to the majority
word: go the way of all flesh
word: go the way of the dinosaurs
word: go the way of the dodo
word: go the way of the dodo bird
word: go to glory
word: go to one's reward
word: go west
word: hand in one's checks
word: hand in one's dinner pail
word: hop the twig
word: join the choir invisible
word: keel over
word: kick the bucket
word: kick off
word: knock off
word: liquidate
word: lose my life for Jesus Christ
word: lose the number of one's mess
word: meet one's doom
word: meet one's end
word: meet one's maker
word: pass
word: pass away
word: pass in one's checks
word: pass in one's marble
word: pass on
word: pass over
word: pass the river
word: pay nature's debt
word: pay the debt of nature
word: peg out
word: perish
word: pop off
word: pop one's clogs
word: shuffle off this mortal coil
word: sink
word: sleep with one's fathers
word: slip away
word: snuff it
word: succumb
word: take a dirt nap
word: turn up one's toes
word: yield up the ghost
Hyponyms: word: bleed out
word: drown
word: overdose
word: sleep with the fishes
word: stifle
word: suffocate
Related terms: word: dead
word: death
word: kill
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