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Die (Verb)

Meaning¹

Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102".

Classification

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Synonyms

Antonyms

Be Born

Hypernyms

Turn

Hyponyms

Related Words

Meaning²

Languish as with love or desire; "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave".

Classification

Verbs of feeling.

Examples

She was dying to travel the world after graduation.
I'm dying for a cup of coffee after that long night.
The kids have been dying to see the new movie since its trailer was released.
After the breakup, she was dying for someone to talk to.
He was dying to show off his new smartphone features.

Hypernyms

Meaning³

Feel indifferent towards; "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery".

Classification

Verbs of feeling.

Hypernyms

Experience

Meaning⁴

Disappear or come to an end; "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!".

Classification

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Hypernyms

Related Words

Meaning⁵

Be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame; "I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered"; "We almost died laughing during the show".

Classification

Verbs of feeling.

Hypernyms

Lose It
Snap

Meaning⁶

Suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense); "Whosoever..believes in me shall never die".

Classification

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

Meaning⁷

Stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident".