die

Definitions

1. 1plural

   of Dice

2. 2intransitive 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. 3intransitive verb

   To suffer death; to lose life.

4. 4intransitive verb

   To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.

5. 5intransitive verb

   To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

6. 6intransitive verb

   To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.

7. 7intransitive verb

   To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.

8. 8intransitive verb

   To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

9. 9intransitive verb

   To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

10. 10noun

    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. 11noun

    Any small cubical or square body.

12. 12noun

    That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.

13. 13noun

    That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.

14. 14noun

    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. 15noun

    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. 16noun

    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. 17noun

    a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers

    Synonyms

    dice
18. 18noun

    a device used for shaping metal

19. 19noun

    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. 20verb

    suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)

    "Whosoever..believes in me shall never die"

21. 21verb

    disappear or come to an end

    "Their anger died"

    "My secret will die with me!"

22. 22verb

    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

    chokeconkcroakdeceaseexitexpiregopassperish
23. 23verb

    stop operating or functioning

    "The engine finally went"

    "The car died on the road"

    Synonyms

    breakfailgo
24. 24verb

    lose sparkle or bouquet

    "wine and beer can pall"

    Synonyms

    pall
25. 25verb

    to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player

26. 26verb

    cut or shape with a die

    "Die out leather for belts"

27. 27verb

    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. 28verb

    languish as with love or desire

    "She dying for a cigarette"

    "I was dying to leave"

29. 29verb

    feel indifferent towards

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

30. 30verb

    suffer or face the pain of death

    "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"