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diē|dié|diè|Dì-É

die (English)

Pronunciation

- /daɪ/,

/daI/

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Rhymes: aɪ

- Di|Dai|daye|lang=en

Etymology 1

From - dien, - non - |to die, pass away|lang=non, from - dawjanan||diwanan|to die|lang=en

Danska - -

- lang=da, - - - lang=nds, - - - lang=dum, - lang=dum, Old High German - lang=goh), from - dheu-||dhwey-|to die|lang=en (compare Old Norse dá 'catalepsy', Old Irish díth 'end, death', Old Church Slavonic daviti 'to strangle', Armenian - tr=di||corpse|lang=hy, Avestan dvaidī 'we press').J.P. Mallory and Douglas Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, s.v. "death" (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), 150.Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2003).

Verb

d|y|ing

To stop live|living; to become dead; to undergo death.

# Followed by of. General use.

#* 1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Penguin 1985, p. 87:

#*: "What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver.

#* 2000, Stephen King, On Writing, Pocket Books 2002, p. 85:

#*: In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.

# Followed by from. General use, though somewhat more common in the context of - sub=labelcat.

#* 1865, British Medical Journal, 4 Mar 1865, p. 213:

#*: She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.

#* 2007, Frank Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune, Tor 2007, p. 191:

#*: "Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb. . ."

# Followed by for. Often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes.

#* 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Simon & Schuster 1999, p. 232:

#*: Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war.

#* 2003, Tara Herivel & Paul Wright (Eds.), Prison Nation, Routledge 2003, p. 187:

#*: Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.

# - _|rare Followed by with. Now rare as indicating direct cause.

#* 1600, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, Scene I:

#*: Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die with mockes, / Which is as bad as die with tickling.

#* 1830, Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, Richards 1854, p. 337:

#*: And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.

To yearn intensely.

* 1598, - Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, Scene II:

*: Yes, and his ill conditions; and in despite of all, dies for him.

* 2004 Paul Joseph Draus, Consumed in the city: observing tuberculosis at century's end - Page 168

*: I could see that he was dying, dying for a cigarette, dying for a fix maybe, dying for a little bit of freedom, but trapped in a hospital bed and a sick body.

To cause the death of a player_character while controlling it.

I can't go to level four because I always die against the boss of level three.

To be cut_off by family or friends utterly, as if dead.

The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.

To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.

To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.

machine

to stop working, to break_down.

My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.

computer program

To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).

Synonyms

to stop living

bite_the_dust, buy_the_farm, check_out, cross_over, expire, succumb, give_up_the_ghost, pass, pass_away, pass_on, be_no_more, cease_to_be, go_to_meet_one's_maker, be a stiff, push_up_the_daisies, hop_off_the_twig, kick_the_bucket, shuffle_off_this_mortal_coil, join_the_choir_invisible