die

verb24

1. •
   to stop being alive

   • Returne with speed, time passeth swift away, Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day. — 1587
2. •
   followed by from as an indication of direct cause; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences

   • He died from heart failure.
3. •
   followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes

   • He died for the one he loved.
4. •
   followed by with as an indication of manner

   • She died with dignity.
5. •
   to die in a certain form.

   • Will I die a happy man?
6. •
   To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).

   • He died a hero's death.
   • They died a thousand deaths.
7. •
   (nonstandard) followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from)

   • I can't believe I just died to a turret!
8. •
   (slang) To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.

   • Whenever my brother dies, he ragequits.
9. •
   followed by of as an indication of direct cause; general use

   • He died of malaria.
10. •
    To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".

    • My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
    • Sorry I couldn't call you. My phone died.
11. •
    To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
12. •
    (figurative) To yearn intensely.

    • I'm really dying to eat in that new restaurant.
    • I'm dying for a piss.
13. •
    (informal) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

    • If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.
14. •
    (figurative) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.

    • When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.
15. •
    To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.

    • The proposed gas tax died after the powerful rural senator refused to let it out of committee.
16. •
    To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.

    • Great deeds cannot die. — 1847
17. •
    To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

    • But it came to passe in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. — 1611
18. •
    (figurative) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

    • He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.
19. •
    (slang) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

    • Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...
20. •
    To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.

    • The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.
21. •
    To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
22. •
    To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
23. •
    To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
24. •
    (no longer used) followed by with as an indication of direct cause

    • Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die with mockes, / Which is as bad as die with tickling. — 1598

noun9

1. •
   Any small cubical or square body.

   • Some young creatures have learnt their letters and syllables, and the pronouncing and spelling of words, by having them pasted or written upon many little flat tablets or dies. — 1741
2. •
   An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.

   • Most dice are six-sided.
   • I rolled the die and moved 2 spaces on the board.
3. •
   An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.

   • The number of dies per wafer is basically the area of the wafer divided by the area of the die. — 2002
4. •
   A device for cutting into a specified shape.
5. •
   A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
6. •
   A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
7. •
   An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
8. •
   The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
9. •
   (no longer used) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.

   • […]For th'equall die of warre he well did know. — 1590

adverb1

1. •
   per day

   • Clozapine 100 mg die a.m.

noun1

1. •
   (disapproving, humorous) Initialism of diversity, inclusion, and equity.