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  1. intransitive verb To cease living; become dead; expire.
  2. intransitive verb To cease existing, especially by degrees; fade: The sunlight died in the west.
  3. intransitive verb To experience an agony or suffering suggestive of that of death: nearly died of embarrassment.
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  • For Grossadmiral Raeder, the die was already cast. —  Luftwaffe Victorious
  • Others, though, are convinced the die is already cast How is Meurant The whole afternoon you might have thought it no longer concerned him. —  Maigret in Court - Georges Simenon - 83 - 1960
  • They can shoot me down, but I'll die--die fighting for my home--before I'll give in to this At length Annixter made himself heard All out of the room but the ranch owners," he shouted. —  The Octopus : A story of California
  • Said Nicholas, "Dr. Tauler, before you can do your greatest work for God, the world and this city, you must die--die to yourself, your gifts, your popularity, and even your own goodness, and when you have learned the full meaning of the Cross, you will have a new power with God and man." —  The Calvary Road
  • The specimen sent us is printed in brown on India paper, bearing the Company's imprint underneath Though the die was all ready, as amply proved by the above extract, no plate was made as there was then no postal rate which required such a denomination. —  The Stamps of Canada
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go ·  take ·  give ·  know ·  make ·  live ·  dead ·  have ·  das ·  lie ·  find ·  move

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  1. Middle English dien, probably from Old Norse deyja; see dheu-2 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English de, gaming die, from Old French, from Latin datum, given, from neuter past participle of dare, to give; see dō- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also dye (and dial., Scots, etc., dee); from Middle English dien, dyen, deien, deyen, deghen, degen, digen, etc. (not in Anglo-Saxon, where ‘die’ was expressed by sweltan (see swelt) or steorfan (see starve); but the derived forms deád, dead, and deáth, death, occur), from Icelandic deyja (strong verb, preterit dō, past participle dāinn)=Gothic (Moesogothic) *diwan (strong verb, preterit *dau, past participle diwans, found only as an adjective used as a noun, thata diwano, the mortal, mortality, and in deriv. undiwanei, immortality); the other Teutonic forms are weak: Norwegian döya = Swedish dö = Danish dö = Old Saxon dōian = Old High German Middle High German touwen, die (cf. Gothic (Moesogothic) af-daujan, harass, distress, OFries. deia, deja, kill), from Teutonic √ *dau, whence also ult. English dead and death, q. v. Cf. Old Bulgarian daviti = Bohemian daviti = Russian davitĭ, choke, = Lithuanian dovīti, plague, vex.
  2. The modern sing, form die is due to the peculiar form of the plural, dice, Middle English dys, etc. (see dice); the singular would otherwise be *dee, from Middle English dee, a die, from Old French de, earlier det, plural dez, French dé = Provencal dat = Spanish Portuguese Italian dado, a die, cube, pedestal (whence English dado, q. v.) (cf. Middle Latin dadus, a die, after the Roman forms), from Latin datum, literally what is given, but taken in the sense of ‘what is cast or thrown,’ neuts. of datus, past participle of dare, give, in many phrases used as equivalent to ‘cast’ or ‘throw’ (cf. German würfel, a die, from werfen, throw). Thus die is a doublet of date, datum, and dado: see date.
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