die

English

/daɪ/

verb
Definitions
  • (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
  • (transitive) To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
  • (intransitive) To yearn intensely.
  • (rare) To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
  • (intransitive) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
  • (intransitive) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
  • (figurative) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
  • (intransitive) To stop working, to break down.
  • (intransitive) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
  • To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
  • To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
  • (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
  • (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
  • To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
  • (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English deyen inherited from Old English dīeġan derived from Old Norse deyja (die) inherited from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną (die) root from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (die, run, smoke, whirl, waft, steam, flow, haze, stink, shake, vapour, dark, dwindle).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*dʰew-

Gloss

die, run, smoke, whirl, waft, steam, flow, haze, stink, shake, vapour, dark, dwindle

Concept
Semantic Field

Time

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

暗, 闇, 冥

Emoji
🎲

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms