Die definition
I am dying for a box of chocolates. She was dying to see the exhibit.
An example of die is what is rolled when playing backgammon.
If your vehicle dies, stay with it.
She's dying to learn the secret.
- A piece of engraved metal used for stamping money, medals, etc.
- The stationary part of a machine for shaping or punching holes in sheet metal, etc.; matrix.
- The punch and matrix as a unit.
- A tool used for cutting threads, as of screws or bolts.
- A piece of metal with a hole through it, used in drawing wire, extruding rods, etc.
He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
To die to pleasure or to sin.
An example of die is pulling a plant out of the ground by its' roots.
An example of die is a person's heart stopping and their brain no longer having activity.
The sunlight died in the west.
Nearly died of embarrassment.
Had died to all worldly concerns.
Could see the remains of two aircraft that had died in the attack.
- An engraved metal piece used for impressing a design onto a softer metal, as in coining money.
- One of several component pieces that are fitted into a diestock to cut threads on screws or bolts.
- A part on a machine that punches shaped holes in, cuts, or forms sheet metal, cardboard, or other stock.
- A metal block containing small conical holes through which plastic, metal, or other ductile material is extruded or drawn.
- 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.
- To fail, as from lack of support, especially at an early stage:A plan that died on the vine.
- Remarkable or highly desirable.
- 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.
- Of no use; futile.
- Used as a refusal to a request.
- The decision has been made and is irrevocable.
- to become weaker and cease gradually
- to wither to the roots or woody part
- to cling to life, a cause, etc.; resist to the last
- to die one by one until all are gone
- to go out of existence
- overwhelmingly excellent and satisfyingA chocolate parfait to die for.
- the irrevocable decision has been made
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of die
- 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
- 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 dø, Low German döen, Middle Dutch doyen, douwen, Old High German touwen), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to pass away; to die”) (compare Old Norse dá '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”)).
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