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die has 25 distinct synonyms spread across 5 of its 14 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is be born.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
“She died from cancer”
suffer or face the pain of death
“Martyrs may die every day for their faith”
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”
feel indifferent towards
“She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery”
languish as with love or desire
“She dying for a cigarette”
to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
disappear or come to an end
“Their anger died”
a device used for shaping metal
1 of the 14 recorded senses carries no synonym, antonym or related term, so it is not shown above. Every sense, with its definition and examples, is on the full entry for die.
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for die come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
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