Word Finder - died

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To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

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

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He died a hero's death.

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To yearn intensely.

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I'm dying for a packet of crisps.

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To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.

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

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To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

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

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To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

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

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To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.

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When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.

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(of a machine) To stop working, to break down.

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

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

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

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

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

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to die to pleasure or to sin

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

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

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(of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

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Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...

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To colour with dye, or as if with dye.

She died of a broken heart.

She died when she was twelve.

When Carmen's father died, she thought she was alone in the world, yet all these people had been there for her.

He died because it was his time.

Her voice died in her throat as he turned and started for her.

It had been two years since their mother had died - three since their father had run off with that harlot.

She was a human who died soon after I came here.

Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe was born in Boston, November 10, 1801, and died in Boston, January 9, 1876.

But after Mother died everything changed.

I mourn him, but he died doing what he was trained to do.

The words died on her lips.

He died a long time ago.

The firing died down and soldiers, talking eagerly, streamed out of a side street.

On the evening of the day the old prince died the Marshal went away, promising to return next day for the funeral.

They died readying for bed.

A woman who died during the Schism.

Sean died well, doing his duty.

Almost as bad, how many others had died from the treachery of a single Guardian?

In it was her bucket list, a list of things she hoped to do before she died from the terminal brain tumor she no longer possessed.

Parents were unable to leave their home to bury their child if the child died in the hospital.

I knew the sky was black, because all the heat, which meant light to me, had died out of the atmosphere.

It'll smell like a whale died in here now, and I've only got three more Tahoes that survived the hurricane.

He died on the 12th of December 1842.

During this three-year period, conveniently named by the Chinese "The Three Years of Natural Disasters," no one really knows how many people died; estimates range from fifteen million to a high of more than forty-five million.

As they died, they shouted, 'Communist Party, Chairman Mao, save us.'

Before his death, Pol Pot conceded that his regime certainly killed people, but ''to say that millions died is too much.''

The Bulgarian king Samuel was so stricken by the sight of his mighty army staggering back home that he suffered a stroke and died two days later.

I promised to visit him again the following summer, but he died before the promise was fulfilled.

The flames now died down and were lost in the black smoke, now suddenly flared up again brightly, lighting up with strange distinctness the faces of the people crowding at the crossroads.

I died--and woke up.

Of course, it would be simple to say she died in childbirth.

The Red Sox were in town to take on the Yankees, a revered experience for us died hard fans.

Josh died in a car accident about five years ago.

She died, leaving one daughter, in 1850.

Count Ilya Rostov died that same year and, as always happens, after the father's death the family group broke up.

But Mom got sick and died... and then Dad.

Brandon, you're father died because he wouldn't go to the doctor.

Just like when his sister died.

My brother inherited the title when he died.

If Damian died, it was because of her.

It grew to her height as she watched and then bloomed into an orange-pink flower the size of her head, shriveled and died, and returned.

If Ed had died of natural causes, he would have been saddened, but this was different.

His second wife had died during this year; in 1656 he married a third, who survived him, Margaret, daughter of Lord Spencer, niece of the earl of Southampton, and sister of the earl of Sunderland, who died at Newbury.

Balquhidder was the scene of some of the exploits of Rob Roy, who died there in 1734.

After variolation, sometimes people died from the smallpox they caught.

He had died by the time I read that passage in one of his books, so I couldn't write him, as is my normal practice when an author's words puzzle me.

His methods had probably died with him; and if they had not, how was a little girl in a far-off town in Alabama to receive the benefit of them?

Mr. John P. Spaulding, of Boston, died in February, 1896.

Since Bishop Brooks died I have read the Bible through; also some philosophical works on religion, among them Swedenborg's "Heaven and Hell" and Drummond's "Ascent of Man," and I have found no creed or system more soul-satisfying than Bishop Brooks's creed of love.

An old-fashioned man would have lost his senses or died of ennui before this.