intransitive. Of a person, animal, or plant: to suffer a violent, sudden, or untimely death; to die; to be killed.

With pregnant sense. (a) to shed the blood of (another person or persons): to kill in a manner involving effusion of blood; often loosely, to kill…

Phrases and figurative uses. to die in one's shoes: to meet with a violent death, esp. to be hanged. Also allusively.

colloquial. to come to a sticky end and variants: to die or come to grief in violent or exceptionally unpleasant circumstances.