Die Definition

dice, died, dieing, dies, dying
verb
died, dies, dying
To mold, stamp, cut, or shape with a die.
Webster's New World
To stop living; become dead.
Webster's New World
To cease existing, especially by degrees; fade.
American Heritage Medicine
To suffer the agony of death or an agony regarded as like it.
Webster's New World
To cease existing; end.
Webster's New World
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noun
dies
Any small cube resembling this.
Webster's New World
A small, marked cube used in games of chance.
Webster's New World
A dado of a pedestal.
Webster's New World
Any of various tools or devices, originally cubical in form, for molding, stamping, cutting, or shaping; specif.,
Webster's New World
A game of chance using dice.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
idiom
die hard
  • To take a long time in passing out of existence:

    racial prejudices that die hard.

  • To resist against overwhelming, hopeless odds:

    radicalism that dies hard.

American Heritage
die on the vine
  • To fail, as from lack of support, especially at an early stage:

    a plan that died on the vine.

American Heritage
to die for
  • Remarkable or highly desirable.
American Heritage
load the dice
  • To make an outcome highly probable; predetermine a result:
  • To put another at a distinct disadvantage, as through prior maneuver:

    The dice were loaded against the defendant before the trial.

American Heritage
no dice
  • Of no use; futile.
  • Used as a refusal to a request.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Die

Noun

Singular:
die
Plural:
dice, dies

Origin of Die

  • From Middle English dien, deien, deȝen, from Old English dīġan, dīeġan (“to die”) and Old Norse deyja (“to die, pass away”), both from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną (“to die”) (compare Danish , Low German döen, Middle Dutch doyen, douwen, Old High German touwen), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to pass away; to die”) (compare Old Norse 'catalepsy', Old Irish díth 'end, death', Old Church Slavonic daviti 'to strangle', Albanian vdes (“to die”), vdekje (“death”), Armenian դի (di, “corpse”), Avestan [script?] (dvaidī, “we press”)).

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French ), from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dare (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English de gaming die from Old French from Latin datum given from neuter past participle of dare to give dō- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English dien probably from Old Norse deyja dheu-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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