die

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To cease living; become dead; expire.
2. v. To cease existing, especially by degrees; fade: The sunlight died in the west.
3. v. To experience an agony or suffering suggestive of that of death: nearly died of embarrassment.
4. v. Informal To desire something greatly: I am dying for a box of chocolates. She was dying to see the exhibit.
5. v. To cease operation; stop: If your vehicle dies, stay with it.
6. v. To be destroyed, as in combat: could see the remains of two aircraft that had died in the attack.
7. v. To become indifferent: had died to all worldly concerns.
8. die back Botany To be affected by dieback.
9. die down To lose strength; subside: The winds died down.
10. die off To undergo a sudden, sharp decline in population: Rabbits were dying off in that county.
11. die out To cease living completely; become extinct: tribes and tribal customs that died out centuries ago.
12. idiom. die hard To take a long time in passing out of existence: racial prejudices that die hard.
13. idiom. die hard To resist against overwhelming, hopeless odds: radicalism that dies hard.
14. idiom. die on the vine To fail, as from lack of support, especially at an early stage: a plan that died on the vine.
15. idiom. to die for Informal Remarkable or highly desirable.
16. n. A device used for cutting out, forming, or stamping material, especially:
17. n. An engraved metal piece used for impressing a design onto a softer metal, as in coining money.
18. n. One of several component pieces that are fitted into a diestock to cut threads on screws or bolts.
19. n. A part on a machine that punches shaped holes in, cuts, or forms sheet metal, cardboard, or other stock.
20. n. A metal block containing small conical holes through which plastic, metal, or other ductile material is extruded or drawn.
21. n. Architecture The dado of a pedestal, especially when cube-shaped.
22. n. A small cube marked on each side with from one to six dots, usually used in pairs in gambling and in various other games.
23. n. A game of chance using dice.
24. v. To cut, form, or stamp with or as if with a die.
25. idiom. load the dice To make an outcome highly probable; predetermine a result: "These factors merely load the dice, upping the odds that a household will fall into a certain . . . income distribution” ( Thomas G. Exter).
26. idiom. load the dice To put another at a distinct disadvantage, as through prior maneuver: The dice were loaded against the defendant before the trial.
27. idiom. no dice Of no use; futile.
28. idiom. no dice Used as a refusal to a request.
29. idiom. the die is cast The decision has been made and is irrevocable.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To cease to live; lose or part with life; expire; suffer death; perish: said of sentient beings, and used absolutely (as, all must die), or with of, by, or from, to express the cause of death, or with for to express the object or occasion of dying: as, to die of smallpox, or by violence; to die for one's country.
2. To lose vital power or action; become devitalized or dead: said of plants or parts of plants, as a decayed tree or a withered limb or stem: as, certain plants die down to the ground annually, while their roots live.
3. To sink; faint.
4. To come to an end or come to nothing; cease, or cease to exist; perish; be lost.
5. To come to an end gradually; become extinct by degrees; vanish by or as if by death: usually with away, out, or down.
6. To become less and less subject to, or cease to be under the power or influence of, a thing: followed by to or unto: as, to die to sin.
7. To languish with affection or love.
8. To be consumed with a great yearning or desire; be very desirous; desire keenly or greatly: as, she was just dying to go.
9. In theology, to be cut off from the presence or favor of God; suffer eternal punishment in the world to come.
10. To languish with pleasure or tenderness.
11. To die in a hardened or impenitent state.
12. Synonyms Die, Expire, Decease, Perish. To die is to cease to live, part with life, or become dead from any cause, and under any circumstances; it is the plainest and most direct of the words. Expire is often used as a softer word than die; it means to breathe out the life or emit the last breath. Decease is a euphemism, like expire, but is often an affectation. Perish represents death as occurring under harsh circumstances of some sort, as violence or neglect; it emphasizes the idea of finality.
13. n. An obsolete spelling of dye.
14. n. A small cube marked on its faces with spots numbering from one to six, used in gaming by being thrown from a box or the hand, the chance being decided by the highest number of spots turned up, and in several Other ways. The numbers on opposite faces of a die always add up to 7, but otherwise there is no uniformity in the arrangement of the numbers. The number of dice used is either one, two, three, or five, according to the game.
15. n. Hazard; chance.
16. n. Any small cube or square block.
17. n. In architecture, the cubical part of a pedestal between its base and cornice. See cut under dado.
18. n. An engraved stamp used for stamping a design, etc., in some softer material, as in coining money.
19. n. One of two or more pieces of hardened steel forming together a female screw for cutting the threads of screws. In use they are fitted into a groove in a contrivance called a die-stock, and are generally adjustable, so that one die may cut screws of different diameters.
20. n. In metal-working, a bed-plate or disk having an opening in the center, used in a punching-machine to support the metal from which any piece is punched.
21. n. A knife by which blanks of any desired shape and size are cut out, as in the sole-shaped cutting-dies used in shoe-factories.
22. To mold or form with a die or with dies.
23. n. A hard-metal former or working-face for shaping, cutting, or impressing: usually used in pairs. See defs. 5 and 6. Specifically— One of a pair of formers, each with an intaglio design, between which is introduced the blank of a coin or medal, and by which, under pressure, a relief is stamped on both sides of the blank.

Wiktionary

1. v. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
2. v. Followed by of. General use.
3. v. 1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Penguin 1985, p. 87:
4. v. "What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver.
5. v. 2000, Stephen King, On Writing, Pocket Books 2002, p. 85:
6. v. In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.
7. v. Followed by from. General use, though somewhat more common in medical or scientific contexts.
8. v. 1865, British Medical Journal, 4 Mar 1865, p. 213:
9. v. She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.
10. v. 2007, Frank Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune, Tor 2007, p. 191:
11. v. "Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb. . ."
12. v. Followed by for. Often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes.
13. v. 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Simon & Schuster 1999, p. 232:
14. v. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia.
15. v. 2003, Tara Herivel & Paul Wright (Eds.), Prison Nation, Routledge 2003, p. 187:
16. v. Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.
17. v. This template needs documentation and categorisation. Please create the documentation page.Followed by with. Now rare as indicating direct cause.
18. v. 1600, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, Scene 1:
19. v. 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.
20. v. 1830, Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, Richards 1854, p. 337:
21. v. And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.
22. v. To be cut off from family or friends.
23. v. To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
24. v. To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
25. v. to stop working, to break down.
26. v. To have an orgasm.
27. n. A polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
28. n. The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
29. n. A device for cutting into a specified shape.
30. n. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
31. n. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
32. n. A fragment of a completed integrated circuit wafer, among those produced by fracturing the wafer as specified in its design, that includes a portion that (unless defective) can provide the electronic function for which it was designed, but whose further mechanical subdivision would irreversibly impair that function.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. 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
2. v. To suffer death; to lose life.
3. v. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
4. v. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
5. v. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
6. v. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.
7. v. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
8. v. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
9. 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.
10. n. Any small cubical or square body.
11. n. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
12. n. That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. lose sparkle or bouquet
2. v. to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
3. v. languish as with love or desire
4. v. suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
5. v. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
6. v. disappear or come to an end
7. v. feel indifferent towards
8. v. stop operating or functioning
9. n. a device used for shaping metal
10. v. cut or shape with a die
11. v. be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
12. v. suffer or face the pain of death
13. n. 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
14. n. a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers