die

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To stop living.

   His grandfather died last year at the age of ninety.

2. 2
   verb

   To gradually stop, fade, or come to an end.

   Their anger slowly died as they talked things through.

3. 3
   verb

   To want something very much (used as 'be dying to' or 'be dying for').

   I'm dying to try that new restaurant in town.

4. 4
   verb

   (in a game) To lose a life or be removed from play.

   My character died right before the end of the level.

Multiword verbs with die

• die from Prepositional verb A2

  to die as a direct result of an injury or external cause

• die of Prepositional verb A2

  to die as a result of a disease or bodily condition

• die off Phrasal verb A2

  to gradually die until few or no members of a group remain

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Simplified etymology

Die entered English in the early Middle Ages from an Old Scandinavian word. Earlier Old English texts usually expressed the idea with verbs such as starve or swelt, or with phrases containing dead.

From Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French dé), from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dō (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Doublet of datum. Replaced Old English tasul, tesul (“die”), from Latin tessella (“die, cube”).

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