intransitive verb died, dying
- to stop living; become dead
- to suffer the agony of death or an agony regarded as like it
- to cease existing; end
- to stop functioning
- to lose force or activity; become weak, faint, unimportant, etc.
- to fade or wither away
- to become alien or indifferent (to), as if dead
- to pine away, as with desire
- Informal to wish with extreme intensity; yearn: she's dying to learn the secret
- Theol. to suffer spiritual death