die
[daɪ]
Definition:
1. To stop living.
2. Stop operating or functioning.
3. To stop existing; to disappear.
Use 'die' in a sentence:
- She swore that she wouldn't apologize—she'd die first!
- 5,000 people die every year because of accidents in the home.
- I'll die first, before I let you have all my money!
- He knew that under the surgeon's knife he would surely die.
- I feel like I've died and gone to heaven.
- The old customs are dying.
- "He deserved to die," said Penelope viciously.
- Half a million women die needlessly each year during childbirth.
- She had to have the operation, or she would die.
- He knew that if help did not arrive soon they would surely die.
- The verb 'die' as in 'He died suddenly', is intransitive.
- It was whispered that he would soon die and he did.
- 'Pass away' is a euphemism for 'die'.
- We're all going to die at some point.
- Her father and her brothers would die of shame.
- Forty-four people died in the space of five days.
- His secret died with him (= he never told anyone) .
- How did he die? Was it poison?
- He died a poor man.
- Forty thousand children a day die from preventable diseases.
- Everyone wants to be a hero, but no one wants to die.
- He did die a pauper and is buried in an unmarked grave.
- Sadly, bamboo plants die after flowering.
- All too often the animals die through neglect.
- I'm dying for a glass of water.
- I'll never forget it to my dying day.
- If the soil is allowed to dry out the tree could die.
- Contrary to the more alarmist reports, he is not going to die.
- The terminally ill should be allowed to die with dignity.
- She wanted to put her affairs in order before she died.
- Many organisms that die in the sea are soon buried by sediment.
- Lung cells die and are replaced about once a week.
- She did not regain consciousness and died the next day.
- He wants the world to know his son did not die in vain.
- I'd die before I apologized!
- I thought I'd die laughing.
- The play got terrible reviews and quickly died a death.
- At best Nella would be an invalid; at worst she would die.
- He collapsed in the street and died two hours later.
- Nothing concentrates the mind better than the knowledge that you could die tomorrow.
- My father died last year ─ I wish I could bring him back to life.
- Five people died in a house fire last night.
- Two women are known to have died.
- At that time people had large families as an insurance against some children dying.
- Around fifty people die of hunger every day in the camp.
- Her parents died a long time ago.
- Three people died during an assault on the mountain.
- Thousands of people could die because the relief effort has fallen so far behind.
- She'd rather die than give a speech.
- 400 people a year die of this disease on average.
- When his wife died, his world fell apart.
- After his wife died, he really hit the bottle.
- After his wife died, he had nothing to live for.
- No one ever died of a broken heart.
- When my father died, Jim was a real support.
- My life has been an empty shell since he died.
- When she died I was filled with a sense of loss.
- She died ten years ago but her memory lives on.
- At least they died happy.
- Without treatment, she will almost certainly die.
- Her parents died while she was still at school.