English Dictionary

die

/daɪ/

verb

followed by of; general use: / followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences:

Many people die of old age.

意味（1）

followed by of; general use:

He died of malaria.

意味（2）

followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences:

He died from heart failure.

意味（3）

followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes:

He died for the one he loved.

意味（4）

(now rare) followed by with as an indication of direct cause:

Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die with mockes, / Which is as bad as die with tickling.

意味（5）

(uncommon, nonstandard outside video games) followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from):

I can't believe I just died to a turret!

意味（6）

(still current) followed by with as an indication of manner:

She died with dignity.

意味（7）

(transitive) To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).

He died a hero's death.

意味（8）

(intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.

I'm dying for a packet of crisps.

意味（9）

(rare, intransitive) To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.

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

意味（10）

(intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

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

意味（11）

(intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

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

意味（12）

(figuratively, intransitive, hyperbolic) 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.

意味（13）

(intransitive, of a machine) To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".

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

意味（14）

(intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).

意味（15）

(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.

The proposed gas tax died after the powerful rural senator refused to let it out of committee.

意味（16）

To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.

letting the secret die within his own breast

意味（17）

To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

His heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

意味（18）

(often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.

to die to pleasure or to sin

意味（19）

(architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

意味（20）

To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

意味（21）

(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...