Die Definition

dī

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

Synonyms:

Synonyms:
go home feet first
keel over
be gathered to one's fathers
go to one's reward
bite-the-bullet
breathe one's last
lay down one's life
bite-the-dust
answer the last call
shut-up-shop
kick-the-bucket
buy-the-farm
push up daisies
cash-in
cash-in-one-s-chips

Antonyms:

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:

Synonyms:
cubes
dice
chops

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

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Die

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 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”)).

From Wiktionary
From Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French dé), 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