die
verb
1.
3.
4.
- “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”
5.
9.
noun
Origin
From Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French dé), from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dō (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Doublet of datum. Replaced Old English tasul, tesul (“die”), from Latin tessella (“die, cube”).
Phrases
- beer die
- cocked die
- coin die
- cross my heart and hope to die
- die a death
- die a thousand deaths
- die and go to heaven
- die away
- die back
- die bonder
- die cap
- die cutting
Related words
Narrower terms
WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved. Wiktionary content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence.