From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Die \Die\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Died}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dying}.] [OE. deyen, dien, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deyja; akin to Dan. d["o]e, Sw. d["o], Goth. diwan (cf. Goth. afd?jan to harass), OFries. d?ia to kill, OS. doian to die, OHG. touwen, OSlav. daviti to choke, Lith. dovyti to torment. Cf. {Dead}, {Death}.]
1. 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; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.
To die by the roadside of grief and hunger. --Macaulay.
She will die from want of care. --Tennyson.
2. To suffer death; to lose life.
In due time Christ died for the ungodly. --Rom. v. 6.
3. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
Letting the secret die within his own breast. --Spectator.
Great deeds can not die. --Tennyson.
4. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
His heart died within, and he became as a stone. --1 Sam. xxv. 37.
The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca. --Tatler.
5. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
6. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.
Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness. --Spectator.
7. (Arch.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
8. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
{To die in the last ditch}, to fight till death; to die rather than surrender.
''There is one certain way,'' replied the Prince [William of Orange] '' by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, -- I will die in the last ditch.'' --Hume (Hist. of Eng. ).
{To die out}, to cease gradually; as, the prejudice has died out.
Syn: To expire; decease; perish; depart; vanish.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies.
2. Of or pertaining to dying or death; as, dying bed; dying day; dying words; also, simulating a dying state.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dying \Dy"ing\, noun The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces; used to generate random numbers [syn: {dice}]
2: a device used for shaping metal
3: 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
verb
1: pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully" [syn: {decease}, {perish}, {go}, {exit}, {pass away}, {expire}, {pass}] [ant: {be born}]
2: suffer or face the pain of death; "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"
3: 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"
4: 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" [syn: {fail}, {go bad}, {give way}, {give out}, {conk out}, {go}, {break}, {break down}]
5: feel indifferent towards; "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"
6: languish as with love or desire; "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave"
7: cut or shape with a die; "Die out leather for belts" [syn: {die out}]
8: to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
9: lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" [syn: {pall}, {become flat}]
10: disappear or come to an end; "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!"
11: suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense); "Whosoever..believes in me shall never die" [also: {dying}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be; "a dying man"; "his dying wish"; "a dying fire"; "a dying civilization" [syn: {dying(a)}] [ant: {aborning}]
2: eagerly desirous; "anxious to see the new show at the museum"; "dying to hear who won" [syn: {anxious(p)}, {dying(p)}]
noun
1: the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes" [syn: {death}, {demise}] [ant: {birth}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
208 Moby Thesaurus words for "dying": abatement, abridgment, alleviation, annihilation, attenuation, bad, bane, biological death, brittle, burning out, burnout, capricious, cessation of life, changeable, choking, clinical death, comedown, contraction, controlling, corruptible, crossing the bar, curtains, dampening, damping, death, death knell, debasement, debt of nature, decadence, decadency, decease, deciduous, declension, declination, decline, declining, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demise, demotion, departure, depravation, depravedness, depreciation, depression, derogation, descent, despaired of, deterioration, devolution, diminishing, diminishment, diminution, dissolution, done for, doom, dousing, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drop, dwindling, dying off, ebb, ebb of life, ebbing, effeteness, end, end of life, ending, ephemeral, eternal rest, evanescent, exit, expiration, expiring, extenuation, extinction, extinguishment, facing death, fade-out, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, fall, falling-off, fickle, final summons, finger of death, fire fighting, flame-out, fleeting, flitting, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, given up, going, going off, going out, grave, hand of death, hopeless, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, in articulo mortis, in extremis, incapable of life, inconstant, insubstantial, involution, jaws of death, knell, languishment, lapse, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leaving life, lessening, letup, loss of life, loss of tone, low, lowering, making an end, miniaturization, mitigation, momentary, moribund, mortal, mutable, near death, nondurable, nonpermanent, nonviable, parting, passing, passing away, passing over, perishable, perishing, putting out, quenching, quietus, receding, reduction, regression, relaxation, release, rest, retiring, retreating, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, reward, sagging, scaling down, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, short-lived, shrinking, simplicity, sinking, sleep, slippage, slipping, slipping away, slump, smotheration, smothering, snuffing, somatic death, stifling, subtraction, summons of death, temporal, temporary, terminal, terminal case, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, volatile, wane, waning, weakening
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