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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb colloq. To drop down in a faint, or as if dead; to die.

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  • verb intransitive, nautical Of a vessel: to roll so far on its side that it cannot recover; to capsize.
  • verb intransitive, idiomatic To collapse in a faint; to black out; to die.

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  • verb turn over and fall

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