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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of die.

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Examples

  • "If you had died then -- _died childless_ -- I should have thanked God day and night."

    The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler

  • She said her husband died on Saturday, the 24th of October, and had been at work on the Caharagh road _the day he died_.

    The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

  • He died for Mass'r Jim, -- loved him and _died_ for him, -- jes 'give up his sweet, precious body and soul for him on de cross!

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

  • Captain Bellairs died -- _died suddenly_, did he not? "

    The Doctor of Pimlico Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime William Le Queux 1895

  • Meanwhile you did not have to live long enough to experience the vanity of human achievement firsthand, seeing the records that you broke broken anew by someone else, feeling your flesh slowly sag and fade, so that the athlete in you would disappear long before you did, and “the name died before the man.”

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • Meanwhile you did not have to live long enough to experience the vanity of human achievement firsthand, seeing the records that you broke broken anew by someone else, feeling your flesh slowly sag and fade, so that the athlete in you would disappear long before you did, and “the name died before the man.”

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • Meanwhile you did not have to live long enough to experience the vanity of human achievement firsthand, seeing the records that you broke broken anew by someone else, feeling your flesh slowly sag and fade, so that the athlete in you would disappear long before you did, and “the name died before the man.”

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • Meanwhile you did not have to live long enough to experience the vanity of human achievement firsthand, seeing the records that you broke broken anew by someone else, feeling your flesh slowly sag and fade, so that the athlete in you would disappear long before you did, and “the name died before the man.”

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • “Kobold—” But the word died on his lips as Zaldimar further increased the insidious illumination.

    WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010

  • “Kobold—” But the word died on his lips as Zaldimar further increased the insidious illumination.

    WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE Richard A. Knaak 2010

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