Definition of dieing Dieing

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dieing, verb, gerund of die (infinitive).

WordNet

Noun Plural: dice
die - a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
		dice
		square block, cube a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube
		five, five-spot the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
		four-spot, four a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips
		one-spot a domino or die whose upward face shows one pip
die - a device used for shaping metal
		shaping tool a tool for shaping metal
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
		cutting tool, cutlery, cutter tableware implements for cutting and eating food
Verb dies, dying, died
die - pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
		decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
		be born come into existence through birth; "She was born on a farm"
		change state, turn undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"
		die off, die out become extinct; "Dinosaurs died out"
		die back, die down suffer from a disease that kills shoots; "The plants near the garage are dying back"
		die down become progressively weaker; "the laughter died down"
		abort terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion
		asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate smother or suppress; "Stifle your curiosity"
		buy it, pip out be killed or die;
		drown die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"
		predecease die before; die earlier than; "She predeceased her husband"
		conk out, go bad, give out, give way, break down, die, fail, go, break end resistance, as under pressure or force; "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram"
		famish, starve die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
		fall pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work"
		succumb, yield be fatally overwhelmed
die - suffer or face the pain of death; "Martyrs may die every day for their faith"
		endure, suffer feel pain or be in pain
die - disappear or come to an end; "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!"
		disappear, go away, vanish get lost, as without warning or explanation; "He disappeared without a trace"
die - cut or shape with a die; "Die out leather for belts"
		die out
		cut out cease operating; "The pump suddenly cut out"
die - to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
		play engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously; "They played games on their opponents"; "play the stock market"; "play with her feelings"; "toy with an idea"
		baseball game, baseball a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!"
die - suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense); "Whosoever..believes in me shall never die"
		religious belief, religion, faith a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality"
die - lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall"
		pall, become flat
		change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
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"
		lose it, break down, snap collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack
die - languish as with love or desire; "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave"
		pine, yen, ache, languish, yearn have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"
die - feel indifferent towards; "She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery"
		experience, feel go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling"
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"
		fail, go bad, give way, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
		change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
		go down, crash be defeated; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too"
		burn out, blow out, blow melt, break, or become otherwise unusable; "The lightbulbs blew out"; "The fuse blew"
		misfire fail to fire or detonate; "The guns misfired"
		malfunction, misfunction fail to function or function improperly; "the coffee maker malfunctioned"

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Wiktionary

die (Noun)
Plural: dice A polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in game of games of chance .
die (Noun)
Plural: dies The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth.
die (Noun)
Plural: dies A device for cutting into a specified shape.
die (Noun)
A device used to cut an external screw thread .
die (Noun)
Plural: dies A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
die (Noun)
Plural: dies An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
die (Noun)
Plural: dice or dies A fragment of a completed integrated circuit wafer, among those produced by fracturing the wafer as specified in its design, that includes a portion that unless defective can provide the electronic function for which it was designed, but whose further mechanical subdivision would irreversibly impair that function.
die (Verb)
To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
die (Verb)
1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Penguin 1985, page 8.
die (Verb)
"What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver.
die (Verb)
2000, Stephen King, On Writing, Pocket Books 2002, page 8.
die (Verb)
In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.
die (Verb)
1865, British Medical Journal, 4 Mar 1865, page 21.
die (Verb)
She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.
die (Verb)
2007, Frank Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune, Tor 2007, page 19.
die (Verb)
"Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb.. ".
die (Verb)
1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Simon & Schuster 1999, page 23.
die (Verb)
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.
die (Verb)
2003, Tara Herivel & Paul Wright editors, Prison Nation, Routledge 2003, page 18.
die (Verb)
Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.
die (Verb)
1600, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, Scene I.
die (Verb)
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.
die (Verb)
1830, Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, Richards 1854, page 33.
die (Verb)
And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.
die (Verb)
She died with dignity.
die (Verb)
To stop living and undergo a specified death.
die (Verb)
To yearn intensely.
die (Verb)
To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.
die (Verb)
To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
die (Verb)
To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
die (Verb)
To stop working, to break down .
die (Verb)
To abort, to terminate as an error condition.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

die (pl. )
of Dice
die (v. i.)
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.
die (v. i.)
To suffer death; to lose life.
die (v. i.)
To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
die (v. i.)
To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
die (v. i.)
To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
die (v. i.)
To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.
die (v. i.)
To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
die (v. i.)
To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
die (n.)
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.
die (n.)
Any small cubical or square body.
die (n.)
That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
die (n.)
That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
die (n.)
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.
die (n.)
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.
die (n.)
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.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

die
To cease to live.
die
An object with many (usually 6) faces, each with a different value, that is used in many games to randomly select a number.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

die
dī, v.i. to lose life: to perish: to wither: to languish: to become insensible:—pr.p. dy′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. died (dīd).—adj. Die′-away′, languishing.—Die away, to disappear by degrees, become gradually inaudible; Die game, to keep up one's spirit to the last; Die hard, to struggle hard against death, to be long in dying; Die off, to die quickly or in large numbers; Die out, to become extinct, to disappear. [From a Scand. root seen in Ice. deyja, Dan. d[ö]e, Scot. dee; akin to Mid. High Ger. touwen, whence Ger. tod, todt. The A.S. word is steorfan, whence our starve.]
die
dī, n. a small cube used in gaming by being thrown from a box: any small cubical body: hazard:—pl. Dice (dīs).—n. Dice′-box.—adj. Diced, ornamented with square or diamond-shaped figures.—ns. Dice′-play; Dice′-play′er, Dī′cer; Dī′cing-house.—The die is cast, the question is decided. [O. Fr. det, pl. dez (Prov. dat, It. dado), from Low L. dadus—L. dātus, given or cast (talus, a piece of bone used in play, being understood). Doublets, dado, date.]
die
dī, n. a stamp for impressing coin, &c.: the cubical part of a pedestal:—pl. Dies (dīz).—ns. Die′-sink′er; Die′-sink′ing, the engraving of dies; Die′-stock, a contrivance for holding the dies used in screw-cutting; Die′-work, ornamentation of a metal surface by impressions with a die. [See above.]