- OE. deyendien, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deyja; akin to Dan. döe, Sw. dö, Goth. diwancf. Goth. afd�jan to harass), OFries. d�ia to kill, OS. doian to die, OHG. touwen, OSlav. daviti to choke, Lith. dovyti to torment. Cf. DeadDeath
- 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 ofbywithfrom, 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.To die by the roadside of grief and hunger.She will die from want of care.
- To suffer death; to lose life.In due time Christ died for the ungodly.
- To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.Letting the secret die within his own breast.Great deeds can not die.
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.His heart died within, and he became as a stone.The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca.
- To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
- To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness.
- ArchTo disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.To expire; decease; perish; depart; vanish.
