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died Meaning & Definition

/daɪd/

What Does Died Mean?

Died is a verb that means simple past and past participle of die.

Died at a Glance

Part of speechverb
Pronunciation/daɪd/
Synonymsbe no more, bite the big one and bite the dust

Died Definition (Verb)

  1. simple past and past participle of die

Verb

  1. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
  2. To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).

    He died a hero's death.

  3. To yearn intensely.

    I'm dying for a packet of crisps.

  4. To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.

    The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.

  5. To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

    He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.

  6. To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

    If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.

  7. To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.

    When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.

  8. (of a machine) To stop working, to break down.

    My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.

  9. (of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
  10. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
  11. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
  12. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.

    to die to pleasure or to sin

  13. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
  14. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
  15. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

    Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...

Verb

  1. To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

Synonyms of Died

be no morebite the big onebite the dustbuy the farmcease to becheck outcross overcross the riverexpiregive up the ghostgo to meet one's makerhop off the twigjoin the choir invisiblekick the bucketpasspass awaypass onpush up the daisiesshuffle off this mortal coilstiffsuccumbshadestainstreaktint
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Died in a Sentence

He died a hero's death.

I'm dying for a packet of crisps.

The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.

He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.

If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.

When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.

My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.

to die to pleasure or to sin

Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...

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