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die

/daɪ/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
  2. To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
  3. To yearn intensely.
  4. To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
  5. To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
  6. To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
  7. A regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
  8. That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
  9. (plural also dies) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
  10. The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
  11. A device for cutting into a specified shape.
  12. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
  13. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
  14. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
  15. (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
  16. A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
  17. Any hue, color, or blee.
  18. To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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