DIE (dying)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does die mean? 

• DIE (noun)
  The noun DIE has 3 senses:

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

2. a device used for shaping metal

3. 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

  Familiarity information: DIE used as a noun is uncommon.

• DIE (verb)
  The verb DIE has 11 senses:

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

2. suffer or face the pain of death

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

4. stop operating or functioning

5. feel indifferent towards

6. languish as with love or desire

7. cut or shape with a die

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

9. lose sparkle or bouquet

10. disappear or come to an end

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

  Familiarity information: DIE used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dice; die

Hypernyms ("die" is a kind of...):

cube; square block (a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "die"):

four; four-spot (a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips)

one-spot (a domino or die whose upward face shows one pip)

six; six-spot (a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips)

five; five-spot (a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A device used for shaping metal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("die" is a kind of...):

shaping tool (a tool for shaping metal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "die"):

stamp (a block or die used to imprint a mark or design)

Derivation:

die (cut or shape with a die)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("die" is a kind of...):

cutlery; cutter; cutting tool (a cutting implement; a tool for cutting)

Derivation:

die (cut or shape with a die)

• DIE (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it

Context example:

The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

die (suffer or face the pain of death)

break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad (stop operating or functioning)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "die"):

drown (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating)

succumb; yield (be fatally overwhelmed)

fall (die, as in battle or in a hunt)

famish; starve (die of food deprivation)

predecease (die before; die earlier than)

buy it; pip out (be killed or die)

asphyxiate; stifle; suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)

abort (cease development, die, and be aborted)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

be born (come into existence through birth)

Also:

die down (become progressively weaker)

die out; die off (become extinct)

die down (suffer from a disease that kills shoots)

Derivation:

death (the absence of life or state of being dead)

death (the time at which life ends; continuing until dead)

death (the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism)

Death (the personification of death)

death (the event of dying or departure from life)

death (the act of killing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Suffer or face the pain of death

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

Martyrs may die every day for their faith

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

endure; suffer (undergo or be subjected to)

Verb group:

buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

death (the act of killing)

death (the event of dying or departure from life)

Death (the personification of death)

death (the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism)

death (the absence of life or state of being dead)

death (the time at which life ends; continuing until dead)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

We almost died laughing during the show

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

break down; lose it; snap (lose control of one's emotions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s VERB-ing

Sense 4

Meaning:

Stop operating or functioning

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad

Context example:

her eyesight went after the accident

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

break (render inoperable or ineffective)

buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "die"):

crash; go down (stop operating)

blow; blow out; burn out (melt, break, or become otherwise unusable)

misfire (fail to fire or detonate)

malfunction; misfunction (fail to function or function improperly)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

These cars won't die

Sense 5

Meaning:

Feel indifferent towards

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

experience; feel (undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 6

Meaning:

Languish as with love or desire

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Context example:

I was dying to leave

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

ache; languish; pine; yearn; yen (have a desire for something or someone who is not present)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

Sense 7

Meaning:

Cut or shape with a die

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

die; die out

Context example:

Die out leather for belts

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

cut out (form and create by cutting out)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

die (a device used for shaping metal)

die (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)

Sense 8

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

play (participate in games or sport)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 9

Meaning:

Lose sparkle or bouquet

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

become flat; die; pall

Context example:

wine and beer can pall

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 10

Meaning:

Disappear or come to an end

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

My secret will die with me!

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

disappear; go away; vanish (get lost, as without warning or explanation)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The business is going to die

Derivation:

death (a final state)

death; dying (the time when something ends)

Sense 11

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Whosoever..believes in me shall never die

Domain category:

faith; religion; religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

AG014699 may cause cancer cells to die.

(AG014699, NCI Dictionary)

You may die to-day, this week, or next month.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Blocking this may cause cancer cells to die.

(AMG 102, NCI Dictionary)

A living will tells which treatments you want if you are dying or permanently unconscious.

(Advance Directives, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

ACN53 is a weakened adenovirus that carries the p53 gene into tumor cells, causing them to die.

(ACN53, NCI Dictionary)

Release of tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) by dying tumor cells may then stimulate an antitumor cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response.

(Adenoviral Vector Encoding HSV Thymidine Kinase, NCI Thesaurus)

Anthracyclines damage the DNA in cancer cells, causing them to die.

(Anthracycline, NCI Dictionary)

Do you mean to tell me, friend John, that you have no suspicion as to what poor Lucy died of; not after all the hints given, not only by events, but by me?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

AZD2281 may cause cancer cells to die.

(AZD2281, NCI Dictionary)

This causes the B-cell leukemia/lymphoma 2 protein to be made in larger amounts, which may keep cancer cells from dying.

(B-cell leukemia/lymphoma 2 protein, NCI Dictionary)