Die

Quick meaning: Die is a verb meaning (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

Meaning

(intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
2. (video games, slang) To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
4. (intransitive, uncommon, idiomatic) To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
5. (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
6. (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
7. (intransitive, figurative, hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.

Example Sentences

He died a hero's death.

They died a thousand deaths.

Whenever my brother dies, he ragequits.

The cheeks drop in; the body bows; Man dies: nor is there hope in dust: […]

Word Forms

• dies
• died
• diest
• diedst
• dieth

Synonyms for die

Depending on context, synonyms include check out, code, cross over, decompose, dematerialize, expire.

Antonyms for die

Common opposites include breathe, live, subsist, survive, germinate, sprout.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include decease, expire, perish, break down, exit, break.

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