Word: die Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English deyen, probably from Old Norse deyja, from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną (“to die”). Displaced native Old English sweltan, whence Modern English swelt, and Old English steorfan, whence modern starve. Pronunciation: /daɪ/, [däɪ̯], [dɑj], [dɑe̯], [daɪ̯] 1. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. Labels: intransitive Example: Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away, Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day. Example: The cheeks drop in; the body bows; Man dies: nor is there hope in dust: […] 2. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. Labels: intransitive Example: He died of malaria. Example: "What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver[…]. 3. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. Labels: intransitive Example: He died from heart failure. Example: She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject. 4. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. Labels: intransitive Example: He died for the one he loved. Example: Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. 5. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. Labels: archaic, intransitive Example: 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. Example: And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land. 6. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. Labels: intransitive, proscribed, sometimes Example: I can't believe I just died to a turret! Example: Dr Thomas concluded she had died to a blow to the head, which led to a bleed on the brain, probably a fall and had hit her head hard on the wooden bedpost, as there was blood on the bedpost. 7. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. Labels: intransitive Example: She died with dignity. 8. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. Labels: intransitive Example: Will I die a happy man? 9. To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death). Labels: transitive Example: He died a hero's death. Example: They died a thousand deaths. 10. To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation. Labels: slang Example: Whenever my brother dies, he ragequits. Example: Of course, Nazis are not present in this game. Instead, we have animals that will try to cover you with dirt. As soon as you get too dirty, you will die. 11. To yearn intensely. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: I'm really dying to eat in that new restaurant. Example: I'm dying for a piss. 12. To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead. Labels: idiomatic, intransitive, uncommon Example: The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother. Example: "My dad […] beat us until we couldn't sit down." […] "What about your mother?" […] "She's alive. […] My aunt visits her once a year, but I don't ask about my mother. She died to me the day she chose my father over protecting us." Luke's voice hitched with emotion. 13. To become spiritually dead; to lose hope. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him. Example: Do you know that I went down / To the ground / Landed on both my broken-hearted knees... / […]I didn't even cry / 'Cause pieces of me had already died 14. To be mortified or shocked by a situation. Labels: colloquial, excessive, intransitive Example: If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die. 15. To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated. Labels: excessive, figuratively, intransitive Example: When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died. Example: I literally died when I saw that. 16. To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality". Labels: intransitive Example: My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning. Example: Sorry I couldn't call you. My phone died. 17. To abort, to terminate (as an error condition). Labels: intransitive 18. To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote. Labels: intransitive Example: The proposed gas tax died after the powerful rural senator refused to let it out of committee. 19. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct. Example: letting the secret die within his own breast Example: Great deeds cannot die. 20. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. Example: But it came to passe in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. Example: When the truth is found to be lies / And all the joy within you dies / Don't you want somebody to love? / Don't you need somebody to love? 21. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject. Labels: often Example: to die to pleasure or to sin 22. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. 23. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. 24. To fail to evoke laughter from the audience. Labels: slang Example: Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...