“died” is a form of
die
[däɪ̯] verb, noun, adverb
Also a form of dye
Forms dies dying died diest diedst dieth dice dye
- verb (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- verb followed by of as an indication of direct cause; general use: “He died of malaria.”
- verb followed by from as an indication of direct cause; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences: “He died from heart failure.”
- verb followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes: “He died for the one he loved.”
- verb (now rare) followed by with as an indication of direct cause:
- verb (now sometimes proscribed) followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from): “I can't believe I just died to a turret!”
- verb (still current) followed by with as an indication of manner: “She died with dignity.”
- verb (in bare form) to die in a certain form. “Will I die a happy man?”
- noun The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- noun A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- noun A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- noun A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- noun An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- noun (semiconductors, plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
- noun Any small cubical or square body.
- noun An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance. “Most dice are six-sided.”
- noun (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
- adverb (medicine, pharmacology) per day “Clozapine 100 mg die a.m.”
Synonyms
assume room temperature auger in be called home be gathered to one's fathers be like the the One be no more be with Jesus be with the Lord bite the big one bite the biscuit bite the dust buy the farm buy it cark it cash in cash in one's chips check out close one's eyes for the last time code conk out dice decease perish go exit pass away expire pass kick the bucket conk
Antonyms
breathe live subsist survive be born germinate sprout come back to life reincarnate rise from the dead
Etymology
From Middle English deyen, probably from Old Norse deyja, from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną (“to die”). Displaced native Old English sweltan, whence Modern English swelt, and Old English steorfan, whence modern starve.
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”).
Borrowed from Latin die (“[in a] day”), locative of Latin dies (“day”).
Variant spelling.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; --said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.
- verb To suffer death; to lose life.
- noun A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.
- noun Any small cubical or square body.
Etymology [OE. deyen, dien, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deyja; akin to Dan. döe, Sw. dö, Goth. diwan (cf. Goth. afd to harass), OFries. d to kill, OS. doian to die, OHG. touwen, OSlav. daviti to choke, Lith. dovyti to torment. Cf. Dead, Death.]
Etymology [OE. dee, die, F. dé, fr. L. datus given, thrown, p. p. of dare to give, throw. See Date a point of time.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “die”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details