Usually means: Cease living; end of life.
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We found 67 dictionaries that define the word die:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. die: Merriam-Webster
  2. die, die, die: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. die: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. die: Collins English Dictionary
  5. die: Vocabulary.com
  6. Die, die: Wordnik
  7. die: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. die: Wiktionary
  9. die: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. die: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. die: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. die: Dictionary.com
  13. die (n.), die (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. die: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. D.I.E, DIE, Die (album), Die (film), Die (integrated circuit), Die (manufacturing), Die (musician), Die (philately), Die: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Die: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. die: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. die: Rhymezone
  19. die, die: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. die: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. die: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Die, Die: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. die: FreeDictionary.org
  24. die: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. die: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. die: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. die: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  28. die: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. die: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Coin Collecting Glossary (No longer online)
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  4. Die: Numismatic Dictionary
  5. die-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  6. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Numa DERIVATIVES ACRONYMS (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. die: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. die: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Die (manufacturing), die: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. die: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. die: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. DIE: Acronym Finder
  4. DIE: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. die: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. die, die, die: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. die: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Die: Backgammon
  2. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Squash Glossary (No longer online)
  4. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Die: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)
  4. die: Printed Circuit Design and Manufacturing Glossary
  5. die: Coin Collecting
  6. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of PCB Terms (No longer online)
  8. Semiconductor Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
verb:  followed by of as an indication of direct cause; general use:
verb:  followed by from as an indication of direct cause; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences:
verb:  followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes:
verb:  (now rare) followed by with as an indication of direct cause:
verb:  (uncommon, nonstandard outside video games) followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from):
verb:  (still current) followed by with as an indication of manner:
verb:  (in bare form) to die in a certain form.
verb:  (transitive) To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
verb:  (video games, slang) To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
verb:  (intransitive, uncommon, idiomatic) To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
verb:  (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative, hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
verb:  (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
verb:  (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
verb:  (intransitive, of a legislative bill or resolution) To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
verb:  To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
verb:  To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
verb:  (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
verb:  (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
verb:  To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
verb:  (of a stand-up comedian or a joke, slang) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
noun:  The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
noun:  A device for cutting into a specified shape.
noun:  A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
noun:  A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
noun:  An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
noun:  (semiconductors, plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
noun:  Any small cubical or square body.
noun:  An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.
noun:  (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
adverb:  (medicine, pharmacology) per day
noun:  Obsolete spelling of dye. [A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.]
verb:  Obsolete spelling of dye. [(transitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye.]
noun:  (derogatory, humorous) Initialism of diversity, inclusion, and equity. [The quality of being diverse or different; difference or unlikeness.]

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