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DIE

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Irregular inflected form: dying   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers

Synonyms:

dice; die

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("die" is a kind of...):

cube; square block (a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "die"):

five; five-spot (a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips)

four; four-spot (a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips)

one-spot (a domino or die whose upward face shows one pip)

six; six-spot (a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A device used for shaping metal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("die" is a kind of...):

shaping tool (a tool for shaping metal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "die"):

stamp (a block or die used to imprint a mark or design)

Derivation:

die (cut or shape with a die)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("die" is a kind of...):

cutlery; cutter; cutting tool (a cutting implement; a tool for cutting)

Derivation:

die (cut or shape with a die)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)

Example:

Whosoever..believes in me shall never die

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Domain category:

faith; religion; religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Disappear or come to an end

Example:

My secret will die with me!

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

disappear; go away; vanish (get lost, as without warning or explanation)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The business is going to die

Derivation:

death (a final state)

death; dying (the time when something ends)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Example:

The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102

Synonyms:

buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

die (suffer or face the pain of death)

break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad (stop operating or functioning)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "die"):

succumb; yield (be fatally overwhelmed)

fall (die, as in battle or in a hunt)

famish; starve (die of food deprivation)

predecease (die before; die earlier than)

drown (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating)

buy it; pip out (be killed or die)

asphyxiate; stifle; suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)

abort (cease development, die, and be aborted)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Antonym:

be born (come into existence through birth)

Also:

die out; die off (become extinct)

die down (suffer from a disease that kills shoots)

die down (become progressively weaker)

Derivation:

death (the absence of life or state of being dead)

death (the time at which life ends; continuing until dead)

death (the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism)

Death (the personification of death)

death (the event of dying or departure from life)

death (the act of killing)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Stop operating or functioning

Example:

her eyesight went after the accident

Synonyms:

break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

break (render inoperable or ineffective)

buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "die"):

crash; go down (stop operating)

blow; blow out; burn out (melt, break, or become otherwise unusable)

misfire (fail to fire or detonate)

malfunction; misfunction (fail to function or function improperly)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

These cars won't die

Sense 5

Meaning:

Lose sparkle or bouquet

Example:

wine and beer can pall

Synonyms:

become flat; die; pall

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 6

Meaning:

To be on base at the end of an inning, of a player

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

play (participate in games or sport)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 7

Meaning:

Cut or shape with a die

Example:

Die out leather for belts

Synonyms:

die; die out

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

cut out (form and create by cutting out)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

die (a device used for shaping metal)

die (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)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame

Example:

We almost died laughing during the show

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

break down; lose it; snap (lose control of one's emotions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s VERB-ing

Sense 9

Meaning:

Languish as with love or desire

Example:

I was dying to leave

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

ache; languish; pine; yearn; yen (have a desire for something or someone who is not present)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE

Sense 10

Meaning:

Feel indifferent towards

Example:

She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

experience; feel (undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 11

Meaning:

Suffer or face the pain of death

Example:

Martyrs may die every day for their faith

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "die" is one way to...):

endure; suffer (undergo or be subjected to)

Verb group:

buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

death (the act of killing)

death (the event of dying or departure from life)

Death (the personification of death)

death (the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism)

death (the absence of life or state of being dead)

death (the time at which life ends; continuing until dead)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A condition in which there is a loss of blood flow to bone tissue, which causes the bone to die.

(Aseptic necrosis, NCI Dictionary)

This causes the BCL2 protein to be made in larger amounts, which may keep cancer cells from dying.

(Apoptosis Regulator Bcl-2, NCI Dictionary)

AP23573 stops cells from dividing and may cause cancer cells to die.

(AP23573, NCI Dictionary)

Then why was he not content to die?

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Results showed adults who lived near green spaces were significantly less likely to die young from any cause, including heart disease, cancer and dementia.

(People Living Near Parks in Cities Less Likely to Face Early Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Samoan vaccination rates dropped in 2018 after two small children died from a faulty vaccine.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)

Of the 628 participants who completed the questionnaire, just under one in five (19%) experienced a cardiovascular disease event and a similar number (21%) died during follow up from causes including cancer and heart attack.

(Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death, University of Cambridge)

They found that 66 infants died during that time, including 28 SIDS deaths and 38 deaths from known causes.

(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)

In India some 46,000 people die and 140,000 face disability every year from snakebite.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)

It may also block the growth of new blood vessels that tumors need to grow and may cause cancer cells to die.

(ABT-869, NCI Dictionary)