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- pronunciation:
- daI
| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
dies, dying, died |
| definition 1: |
When a living thing dies, it stops living.
Plants will die if you don't give them enough water.After my grandfather died, my grandmother came to live with us.
- synonyms:
- pass away
- antonyms:
- live, survive
- similar words:
- end
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| definition 2: |
When something dies, it stops working.
We couldn't use the camera because the battery died.- synonyms:
- cease, fail, stop
- similar words:
- break
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| definition 3: |
If you say you are dying for something, you mean that you want it or need it very, very much. If you are dying for a glass of water, you are very thirsty.
My brother is dying to find out what mom and dad got him for his birthday.- synonyms:
- long
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| definition 4: |
When a noise dies down or dies away, it get softer and softer until you do not hear it anymore. When a kind of animal or plant dies out, it slowly disappears from the world and there are none of these animals or plants left anywhere on the earth.
The noise of the crowd died down when it got dark.We watched the flames of the campfire die out.There used to be a kind of bird called a "dodo," but it died out. These birds do not exist anymore.- synonyms:
- fade away
- similar words:
- disappear, vanish, wane, waste
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| related words: |
stall |
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