die

1. pl. of Dice Source: opted

2. 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. Source: opted

3. v. i. To suffer death; to lose life. Source: opted

4. v. i. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished. Source: opted

5. v. i. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. Source: opted

6. v. i. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin. Source: opted

7. v. i. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away. Source: opted

8. v. i. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. Source: opted

9. v. i. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. Source: opted

10. 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. Source: opted

11. n. Any small cubical or square body. Source: opted

12. n. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance. Source: opted

13. n. That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado. Source: opted

14. 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. Source: opted

15. 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. Source: opted

16. n. A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting">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. Source: opted

Thesaurus links

From the definitions

Explore more