Word Finder - dies

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To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

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To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).

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He died a hero's death.

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To yearn intensely.

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I'm dying for a packet of crisps.

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To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.

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The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.

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To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

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He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.

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To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

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If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.

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To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.

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When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.

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(of a machine) To stop working, to break down.

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My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.

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(of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).

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To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.

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To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

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(often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.

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to die to pleasure or to sin

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To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

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To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

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(of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

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Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...

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The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.

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A device for cutting into a specified shape.

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A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)

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A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.

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An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.

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(plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.

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Any small cubical or square body.

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A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.

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Any hue, color, or blee.

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To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

He dies by poison soon afterwards.

The demon dies with me.

You women have to beat that horse until it either dies or gets up and runs.

In such cases the original parent-actinula does not itself become a medusa, but remains arrested in development and ultimately dies off, so that a true alternation of generations is brought about.

When the root dies later such of these as remain are discharged into the soil, and are then ready to infect new plants.

To paint a Joan of Arc who lives and dies inglorious is the theme she sets herself, and through most of the novel it is perfectly executed.

In Cunina parasitica, however, the ovum develops into an actinula, which buds actinulae as before, but only the daughter-actinulae develop into medusae, while the original, parent-actinula dies off; here, therefore, larval budding has led to a true alternation of generations.

If either husband or wife dies intestate and there are no descendants the whole of the estate passes to the survivor; if there are descendants the surviving spouse has the use of the homestead for the remainder of his or her life, an absolute title to one-third of the other real estate of the deceased, and to personal property limited to $1000 besides wearing apparel.

It has since been shown, however, that unless the gas is at a pressure of more than two atmospheres this wave soon dies out, and the decomposition is only propagated a few inches from the detonator.

Yeah, but he doesn't mind leaving her out in the cold after he dies.

My father's line dies with me, Hilden.

If the wife dies intestate the husband has a right to the use of her real estate for life, and to one-third of the personal estate if there is issue; otherwise to the whole.

This avoided the necessity of readjusting the dies between blows, and ensured greater accuracy in the impression.

You'll find it hard to kill yourself when I'm the one who determines who lives and dies.

Should his blood and those who carry it be exiled, the planet dies.

And if I leave, everyone dies.

When a divorce is granted, the defendant is not permitted to marry other than the plaintiff for three years, unless the plaintiff dies.

Here he seeks a female, pairs, and soon afterwards dies.

So, too, mind consists but of extremely fine particles of matter, and dissolves into air when the body dies.

If it is absent, the cell loses its power of assimilation and growth, and soon dies.

The roots are prevented from fulfilling their function of taking up water and salts from the soil; the leaves accordingly droop, and the whole plant wilts and in bad attacks dies.

If unsuccessful it dies.

The ciliated stage is only capable of free life for five or six hours, and if at the end of that time it has not encountered and attached itself to a minnow, it dies.

The female is fertilized by the male and three or four days later lays a single egg - the winter egg - and then dies.

Coins may be made by casting in moulds or by striking between engraved dies.

The blank was made red-hot and struck between cold dies.

The blanks are converted into coin by receiving an impression from engraved dies.

Each blank is placed on the lower of two dies and the upper die is brought down forcibly upon it.

The dies and collar are shaded.

In the Synoptists, Jesus " grows in favour with God and man," passes through true human experiences and trials, prays alone on the mountain-side, and dies with a cry of desolation; here the Logos' watchword is " I am," He has deliberately to stir up emotion in Himself, never prays for Himself, and in the garden and on the cross shows but power and self-possession.

When either husband or wife dies intestate one-third of the separate real estate of the deceased goes to the survivor if there are two or more children, one-half of it if there is only one child, the whole of it if there are no children, no issue of children, and no father, mother, brother or sister.

If, however, the pipe is blown strongly, the funda mental dies away, and the first overtone is predominant.

When a system is set vibrating and left to itself, the vibration gradually dies away as the energy leaks out either in the waves formed or through friction.

But if the blowing is continued, usually in less than a second the sound dies away to a small fraction of that due to either alone.

The sound swells out and dies down n1 - n2 times per second, or there are n1 - n2 beats per second.

Mexican acquaintance with the signs related only to their secondary function as dies (so to speak) with which to stamp recurring intervals of time.

It was the birthplace of Thomas of Celano, the author of the Dies Irae.

In the east the range is mostly narrow, and dies away on the edge of the Tsaidam depression; but in the west it swells out into the lofty and imposing mass of the Ilve-chimen or Shia-manglay, which is capped with perpetual snow.

Not only is it of lower elevation than them both, but it dies away towards the west, the valleys on each side of it meeting round its extremity to form one broad, open valley, with an altitude of 11,790 to 13,725 ft.

Sven Hedin, whilst agreeing that this may possibly be the true conception, inclines to the view that the Achik-kol Range dies away towards the E., and that the Chimen-tagh and the Kalta-alaghan merge westwards into the border-ranges that lie north of the Muzluk-tagh and the Tokuzdavan.

He further invaded the exclusive rights of the patricians by directing his secretary Gnaeus Flavius (whom, though a freedman, he made a senator) to publish the legis actiones (methods of legal practice) and the list of dies fasti (or days on which legal business could be transacted).

Rivalin is killed in battle, and Blancheflor, after giving birth to a son, dies of grief.

Iseult of the white hand overhears this, and when the ship returns, bringing Iseult to her lover's aid, either through jealousy or by pure inadvertence (both versions are given), she tells Tristan that the sail is black, whereon, despairing of seeing his love again, the hero turns his face to the wall and dies.

Tristan is here the son of Meliadus, king of Loonois; his father does not die, but is decoyed away by an enchantress, and the mother, searching for her husband, gives birth to her child in the forest and dies.

What men call their souls become extinct when the body dies.

During the middle ages Latin prose never dies out.

Thus in a Venetian story the ingenious Beppo ties up Death in a bag and keeps him there for eighteen months; there is general rejoicing; nobody dies, and the doctors are in high feather.

In a Sicilian story an innkeeper corks up Death in a bottle; so nobody dies for years, and the long white beards are a sight to see.

The youth was thus originally a goldsmith, and also an engraver of dies and niellos, and in these arts he became extremely eminent.

He was particularly famed for his dies for medals; he rose to be mint-master at Bologna, and retained that office till the end of his life.