Die

v. i.	1.	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. [imp. & p. p. Died ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dying.] To die by the roadside of grief and hunger. - Macaulay. She will die from want of care. - Tennyson.
	2.	To suffer death; to lose life. In due time Christ died for the ungodly. - Rom. v. 6.
	3.	To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished. Letting the secret die within his own breast. - Spectator. Great deeds can not die. - Tennyson.
	4.	To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. His heart died within, and he became as a stone. - 1 Sam. xxv. 37. The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca. - Tatler.
	5.	To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
	6.	To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; - often with out or away. Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness. - Spectator.
	7.	(Arch.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
	8.	To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. To die in the last ditch to fight till death; to die rather than surrender. "There is one certain way," replied the Prince [William of Orange] " by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, - I will die in the last ditch." - Hume (Hist. of Eng. ).
n.	1.	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.
	2.	Any small cubical or square body. Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies. - Watts.
	3.	That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. Such is the die of war. - Spenser.
	4.	(Arch.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
	5.	(Mach.) 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. Cutting die (Mech.) a thin, deep steel frame, sharpened to a cutting edge, for cutting out articles from leather, cloth, paper, etc. The die is cast the hazard must be run; the step is taken, and it is too late to draw back; the last chance is taken.

Noun	1.	die - small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces; used to generate random numbers Synonyms: dice
	2.	die - a device used for shaping metal
	3.	die - a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods
Verb	1.	die - pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully" Synonyms: decease, pass away, perish, expire, exit, go, pass Antonyms: be born - come into existence through birth; "She was born on a farm"
	2.	die - suffer or face the pain of death; "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"
	3.	die - be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame; "I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered"; "We almost died laughing during the show"
	4.	die - stop operating or functioning; "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" Synonyms: conk out, go bad, break down, fail, give out, give way, break, go
	5.	die - feel indifferent towards; "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"
	6.	die - languish as with love or desire; "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave"
	7.	die - cut or shape with a die; "Die out leather for belts" Synonyms: die out
	8.	die - to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
	9.	die - lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" Synonyms: become flat, pall
	10.	die - disappear or come to an end; "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!"
	11.	die - suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense); "Whosoever..believes in me shall never die"

1.	(jargon)	die - crash. Unlike crash, which is used primarily of hardware, this verb is used of both hardware and software. See also go flatline, casters-up mode.
2.	(electronics)	die - Plural: dies. An unpackaged integrated circuit.

To dream that you die in your dream, symbolizes inner changes, transformation, self-discovery and positive development that is happening within you or in your life. Although such a dreams may bring about feelings of fear and anxiety, it is no cause for albaluster, balustrade, banister, base, be all over, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be done for, be gone, be lost, be no more, be past, be wiped out, become extinct, become void, bird cage, blow over, bones, burin, burn out, caryatid, cash in, cast, cease to be, cease to exist, cease to live, check out, colonnade, column, come to naught, come to nothing, conk, conk out, cop out, crap game, crap shooting, craps, croak, crooked dice, cubes, dado, dematerialize, demise, depart this life, dice, die away, die out, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, do a fade-out, drop, dwindle, ebb, elapse, end, engraving tool, erode, etching ball, etching ground, etching needle, etching point, evanesce, evaporate, exit, fade away, fade out, fall, fall asleep, fall away, fall off, fizzle, fizzle out, flame out, flee, fly, footstalk, form, go away, go dead, go down, go downhill, go off, go out, graver, have it, have its time, have run out, hide, hit a slump, hit rock bottom, hit the skids, intaglio, ivories, jack, kick in, kick off, lapse, last, leave no trace, leave the scene, loaded dice, matrix, melt, melt away, mint, mold, needle, negative, newel-post, part, pass, pass away, pass on, pass out, pass over, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, peg out, peter out, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, pip, plaything, plinth, point, poker dice, pole, pop, post, pretty, punch, put off mortality, queen-post, quit this world, reach the depths, retire from sight, return to dust, rocker, run down, run its course, run out, scorper, seal, shaft, shoe last, sink away, slide, slip, slump, socle, sputter and stop, staff, stalk, stall, stamp, stanchion, stand, standard, stem, stick, stop breathing, style, subbase, subside, succumb, suffer an eclipse, surbase, teeth, template, touch bottom, toy, trunk, up and die, upright, vanish, vanish from sight, waste, waste away, wear away, wear off, yield the ghost

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