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|Die ||vb||Late OE borrowing before 1150. dîegan, dêgan (late OE, Anglian) "die" - ON deyja "die" (ousted OE sweltan "die" and altered OE steorfan "die, perish" which now only denotes "starve"; ON deyja once had an OE cognate which may have given rise to ME deien but forms from 1000 onward very likely stem only from the ON form, according to Serjeantson) - suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense) 2. disappear or come to an end, as one's anger. 3. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life, as from cancer. 4. stop operating or functioning, as a motor car engine. 5. lose sparkle or bouquet, as wine. 6. be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame. 7. feel indifferent towards. |
|Die ||vb||Late OE borrowing before 1150. dîegan, dêgan (late OE, Anglian) "die" - ON deyja "die" (ousted OE sweltan "die" and altered OE steorfan "die, perish" which now only denotes "starve"; ON deyja once had an OE cognate which may have given rise to ME deien but forms from 1000 onward very likely stem only from the ON form, according to Serjeantson) - suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense) 2. disappear or come to an end, as one's anger. 3. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life, as from cancer. 4. stop operating or functioning, as a motor car engine. 5. lose sparkle or bouquet, as wine. 6. be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame. 7. feel indifferent towards. |
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| + | |Die ||phr||"Die a Thousand Deaths" - |
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| − | |Die ||phr||"Die a Thousand Deaths" - (rhetorical) to die many times over (as preferred over some other undesirable action or occurrence). 2. (idiomatic) to suffer repeatedly (often mentally rather than physically); to suffer extreme embarrassment or anxiety. |
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|Die ||phr||"Die Away" - become weaker or faint to the point of extinction. 2. die down. |
|Die ||phr||"Die Away" - become weaker or faint to the point of extinction. 2. die down. |
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