die – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to die away
Participle: died away
Gerund: dying away

Cognates

See the 6 cognates of die

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	die away
we	Let's die away
you	die away

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to stop living

bite the big one, hop off the twig, join the choir invisible, kick the bucket, push up the daisies, shuffle off this mortal coil, stiff

to die

expire

die

succumb

to die of suffocation

stifle

to stop living; to become dead

auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be no more, bite the big one, bite the biscuit, bite the dust, buy it, buy the farm, cark it, cash in, cash in one's chips, check out, conk out, croak, cross the Great Divide, cross the Styx, decease, depart, disincarnate, draw one's last breath, exit, expire, flatline, forfare, give one's all, give up the ghost, go for a burton, go gentle into that good night, go the way of all flesh, go the way of the dinosaurs, go the way of the dodo, go to glory, go to one's reward, hand in one's dinner pail, hop the twig, join the choir invisible, keel over, kick the bucket, knock off, lose one's life, lose the number of one's mess, meet one's doom, meet one's end, meet one's maker, pass, pass away, pass in one's marble, pass on, pass over, pass the river, pay the debt of nature, peg out, perish, pop off, pop one's clogs, shuffle off this mortal coil, sleep with one's fathers, slip away, snuff it, succumb, take a dirt nap, turn up one's toes, yield up the ghost

pass away

transpass

expire

decease, go, depart, conk

disappear

part, cease, stop, pass, recede, end, vanish

wither

dissolve, decay, wane, decline, lapse, fade, fail, faint

Antonyms

to stop living; to become dead

be born, breathe, live, rise from the dead, subsist

To give birth; commonly as past participle "born".

bear

To bear or give birth to.

birth

Of a seed, to begin to grow, to sprout roots and leaves.

germinate

To generate; especially non-mammalian beings.

spawn

To grow from seed.

sprout

To give birth.

whelp

To give life to something.

vitalise

To give life to.

vivificate

To bring to life.

vivify

To cause (a dead person) to live again.

raise

To restore to animation or life.

reanimate

To reactivate or reanimate.

reawaken

To reanimate or give new life to.

requicken

To bring life back to life.

resurrect

To return to life.

revive

To bring back to life.

revivify

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1135, possibly from O.Dan. døja or O.N. deyja "to die, pass away," both from P.Gmc. *dawjanan, from PIE base *dheu- "to pass away, become senseless." It has been speculated that O.E. had *diegan, from the same source, but it is not in any of the surviving texts and the preferred words were steorfan (see starve), sweltan (see swelter), wesan dead, also forðgan and other euphemisms. Languages usually don't borrow words from abroad for central life experiences, but "die" words are an exception, since they are often hidden or changed euphemistically out of superstitious dread. A Du. euphemism translates as "to give the pipe to Maarten." Regularly spelled dege through 15c., and still pronounced "dee" by some in Lancashire and Scotland. Used figuratively (of sounds, etc.) from 1581. Die-hard is 1844 as a noun, specifically of the 57th Regiment of Foot in the British Army; 1877 as an adj.
2. From Middle English deyen, probably from Old Norse deyja, from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną (“to die”). Displaced native Old English sweltan, whence Modern English swelt, and Old English steorfan, whence modern starve. See: Middle English 'deyen', Proto-Germanic '*dawjaną'.

Verbs referencing "die"

Tok Pisin dai, Scots dee, Swedish dö, Danish dø, Norwegian dø, Albanian vdes, Norwegian, nynorsk døy, Polish dławić.

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