Your friend would be furious if you promised you would water his plants while he was out of town, and then let his favorite fern die. To die is to expire, or to cease to be alive.
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;
Noun
small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces; used to generate random numbers
Noun
a device used for shaping metal
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
Verb
suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense); "Whosoever..believes in me shall never die"
Verb
disappear or come to an end; "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!"
Verb
pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"
Verb
stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"
Verb
lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall"
Verb
to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
Verb
cut or shape with a die; "Die out leather for belts"
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"
Verb
languish as with love or desire; "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave"
Verb
feel indifferent towards; "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"
Verb
suffer or face the pain of death; "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"
pl.
of Dice
v. i.
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.
v. i.
To suffer death; to lose life.
v. i.
To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or
extinct; to be extinguished.
v. i.
To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness,
discouragement, love, etc.
v. i.
To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die
to pleasure or to sin.
v. i.
To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to
vanish; -- often with out or away.
v. i.
To disappear gradually in another surface, as where
moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
v. i.
To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
n.
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.
n.
Any small cubical or square body.
n.
That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die;
hazard; chance.
n.
That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the
dado.
n.
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.
n.
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.
n.
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.
Die
To die by the roadside of grief and hunger.
She will die from want of care.2.
In due time Christ died for the ungodly.3.
Letting the secret die within his own breast.
Great deeds can not die.4.
His heart died within, and he became as a stone.
The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca.5.
Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness.7.
"There is one certain way," replied the Prince [William of Orange] " by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, -- I will die in the last ditch."--
Die
Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies.3.
Such is the die of war.4.
Diecian
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;
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
Usage Examples
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
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Other Usage ExamplesA faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.
A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
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