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die

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1. die - Noun

2. die - Verb

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of Dice

To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.

To suffer death; to lose life.

To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.

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

To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.

To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.

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

A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.

That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.

That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.

A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc.

A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.

A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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We must understand that the human person in reality does not die. Death is simply a transfer from one life to the other. Paisios of Mount Athos

When you die people cry and beg for you to come back, but sometimes when you're here, they don't even show they care about you. Source: Internet

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain

Women are stronger than men, they do not die of wisdom. Irish Proverb

Remember that you are going to die. Latin Proverb

He that lives on hope will die fasting. American Proverb

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