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say it: dahy
die is a verb and noun meaning "pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life". It carries 14 recorded senses.
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”
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”
suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
“Whosoever..believes in me shall never die”
religion
a device used for shaping metal
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
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for die come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.