English > die: 14 senses > verb 1, change| Meaning | Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain / sustain life. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
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| Example | "She died from cancer" |
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| Synonyms | decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it |
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| Caused by | kill | Cause to die |
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| Entailed by | leave, leave behind | Be survived by after one's death |
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| Narrower | abort | Cease development, die, and be aborted |
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| buy it, pip out | Be killed / killed or die |
| drown | die from being submerged / submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating / asphyxiating |
| fall | die, as in battle / battle or in a hunt / hunt |
| predecease | die before |
| starve, famish | die of food deprivation |
| succumb, yield | Be fatally overwhelmed |
| suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate | Be asphyxiated |
| Broader | change state, turn | Undergo a transformation or a change of position or action |
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| See also | die down | suffer from a disease that kills shoots |
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| die down | become progressively weaker |
| die out, die off | become extinct |
| Opposite | be born | Come into existence through birth |
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| Similar to | die | Suffer or face the pain of death |
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| fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down | stop operating or functioning |
| Catalan | morir |
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| Spanish | fallecer, morir |
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| Nouns | Death | the personification of death / death / death |
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| death | the act of killing |
| death | the event of dying or departure from life |
| 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 |
English > die: 14 senses > verb 2, perception| Meaning | Suffer or face the pain of death. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
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| Example | "Martyrs may die every day for their faith" |
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| Broader | suffer, endure | Undergo or be subjected to |
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| Similar to | die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it | Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain / sustain life |
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| Spanish | morir |
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| Nouns | Death | the personification of death / death / death |
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| death | the act of killing |
| death | the event of dying or departure from life |
| 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 |
English > die: 14 senses > verb 4, change| Meaning | stop operating or functioning. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
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| Model | These cars won't die |
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| Example | "The car died on the road" |
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| Synonyms | fail, go bad, give way, give out, conk out, go, break, break down |
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| Narrower | blow out, burn out, blow | melt, break, or become otherwise unusable |
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| crash, go down | stop operating |
| malfunction, misfunction | fail to function or function improperly |
| misfire | fail to fire or detonate |
| Broader | change | Undergo a change |
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| Similar to | break | Render inoperable or ineffective |
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| die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it | Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain / sustain life |
| Catalan | fallar |
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| Spanish | fallar |
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