die

die is a 3-letter English word with 30 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Dice. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 4 · 30 senses

Definitions

1. plural. of Dice
2. intransitive verb. To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.
3. intransitive verb. To suffer death; to lose life.
4. intransitive verb. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
5. intransitive verb. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
6. intransitive verb. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
7. intransitive verb. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.
8. intransitive verb. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
9. intransitive verb. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
10. noun. A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.
11. noun. Any small cubical or square body.
12. noun. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
13. noun. That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
14. noun. A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc.
15. noun. A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.
16. noun. A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool.
17. noun. a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers

    Synonyms: dice

18. noun. a device used for shaping metal
19. noun. a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods
20. verb. suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)

    "Whosoever..believes in me shall never die"

21. verb. disappear or come to an end

    "Their anger died"

    "My secret will die with me!"

22. verb. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

    "She died from cancer"

    "The children perished in the fire"

    Synonyms: choke, conk, croak, decease, exit, expire, go, pass, perish

23. verb. stop operating or functioning

    "The engine finally went"

    "The car died on the road"

    Synonyms: break, fail, go

24. verb. lose sparkle or bouquet

    "wine and beer can pall"

    Synonyms: pall

25. verb. to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
26. verb. cut or shape with a die

    "Die out leather for belts"

27. verb. be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame

    "I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered"

    "We almost died laughing during the show"

28. verb. languish as with love or desire

    "She dying for a cigarette"

    "I was dying to leave"

29. verb. feel indifferent towards

    "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"

30. verb. suffer or face the pain of death

    "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"

Synonyms

dice, choke, conk, croak, decease, exit, expire, go, pass, perish, break, fail, pall

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in die:

dei, ide, ied

Common word forms

died, dier, dies, dieing

Words from these letters

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