What is die?

More definitions of "die":

• (verb): Suffer or face the pain of death.
  Example: "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"

• (verb): Stop operating or functioning.
  Synonyms: fail, go bad, give way, give out, conk out, go, break, break down

• (verb): Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.
  Synonyms: decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass

• (noun): Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces; used to generate random numbers.
  Synonyms: dice

• (verb): Disappear or come to an end.
  Example: "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!"

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

• (verb): Cut or shape with a die.
  Example: "Die out leather for belts"
  Synonyms: die out

• (verb): Feel indifferent towards.
  Example: "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"

• (verb): To be on base at the end of an inning, of a player.

• (verb): Languish as with love or desire.
  Example: "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave"

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

• (noun): A device used for shaping metal.

• (noun): 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.

Famous quotes containing the word die:

“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”
—John Arbuthnot (1667–1735)

““Oh, the fighting races don’t die out,
If they seldom die in bed,
For love is first in their hearts, no doubt,””
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)

“You ever gentle gods, take my breath from me;
Let not my worser spirit tempt me again
To die before you please!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)