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Definition of Die

Die of Dice 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. To suffer death; to lose life. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. 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. Any small cubical or square body. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado. A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc. A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing. A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool. Related Definitions: Action, An, And, Animate, Another, Any, Are, As, At, Away, Base, Be, Become, Before, Being, Between, Block, Blow, Body, Box, By, Cause, Cease, Certain, Chance, Coining, Commonly, Composed, Connection, Cornice, Cube, Cubical, Curved, Cut, Dado, Dead, Death, Desired, Determined, Device, Dice, Die, Disappear, Discouragement, Disease, Drawing, Expire, Extinct, Extinguished, Face, Faint, Fire, Flat, For, Forging, Form, Forming, From, Give, Gradually, Grow, Games, Hardened, Hazard, Hollow, Horror, Imperceptible, Impress, In, Included, Indifferent, Internally, Irreparable, Is, It, Languish, Life, Lifeless, Liquor, Live, Lose, Loss, Lost, Love, Made, Make, Manner, Marked, Metal, Might, Object, Occasion, Of, Often, On, One, Or, Out, Pair, Part, Pass, Pedestal, Perforated, Perish, Piece, Pine, Plate, Playing, Pleasure, Pressure, Punch, Punching, Rarely, Recede, Said, Screw, Screw-Cutting, See, Separate, Several, Shaken, Shaped, Sheet, Sin, Sink, Six, Sloped, Small, So, Spiritless, Square, State, Steel, Striking, Subject, Such, Suffer, Surface, Sword, That, The, Thought, Threaded, Through, Throw, Thrown, To, Tool, Total, Up, Used, Vanish, Vapid, Vital, Weakness, Where, Which, With

Die Quotations To live is to die. Cliff Burton What we live by we die by. Robert Frost Be happy or die. Rob Cohen Only the young die good. Oliver Herford I win or I die. Joaquin Andujar

Die Translations die in Afrikaans is sterf die in Dutch is doodgaan, overlijden, sterven die in Finnish is kuolla die in German is sterben die in Italian is estinguersi die in Latin is defungo, intereo, abeo die in Portuguese is dado, morrer die in Spanish is expirar, morir

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