单词 | die |
释义 | die (once / 12 pages) 1v 2v 3v 4nv 5n Your friend would be furious if you promised you would water his plants while he was out of town, and then let his favorite fern die. To die is to expire, or to cease to be alive. The verb to die means "to stop living," and it's also used to exaggerate a need or want, like when you say, "I would die to have those shoes." When die is a noun, it means a metal-cutting tool or the single form of dice: "Hand me the die, it's my turn to roll." When you're talking about permanently staining or coloring something, you have to use the word dye. WORD FAMILYdie: death, died, dies, dying+/death: deathless, deathlike, deathly, deaths/deathless: deathlessly/dying: dyingly, dyings, undying/undying: undyingly USAGE EXAMPLESDavis said all four people who died were residents of the home. Time(Jan 02, 2017) Culture Secretary Karen Bradley said it was important to remember the "horrors" of the Ypres battlefields, and honour the memories of the many who died. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Vuarnet died of a stroke, a statement by the committee said. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life She died from cancer Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it break, break down, conk out, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad stop operating or functioning be born come into existence through birth abort cease development, die, and be aborted asphyxiate, stifle, suffocatebe asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen buy it, pip outbe killed or die; drowndie from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating predeceasedie before; die earlier than famish, starvedie of food deprivation falldie, as in battle or in a hunt succumb, yieldbe fatally overwhelmed strangledie from strangulation change state, turn undergo a transformation or a change of position or action 2v stop operating or functioning The car died on the road Syn|Hypo|Hyper break, break down, conk out, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad break render inoperable or ineffective buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff itpass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life crash, go down stop operating blow, blow out, burn outmelt, break, or become otherwise unusable misfirefail to fire or detonate malfunction, misfunctionfail to function or function improperly jamget stuck and immobilized change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 3v disappear or come to an end Their anger died My secret will die with me! Hyper disappear, go away, vanish get lost, as without warning or explanation 4v suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense) 2Whosoever..believes in me shall never die 1v suffer or face the pain of death Martyrs may die every day for their faith Syn|Hyper buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life endure, suffer undergo or be subjected to 2v be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame I was dying with embarrassment when my little lie was discovered We almost died laughing during the show Hyper break down, lose it, snap lose control of one's emotions 3v languish as with love or desire She dying for a cigarette I was dying to leave Hyper ache, languish, pine, yearn, yen have a desire for something or someone who is not present 4v lose sparkle or bouquet Syn|Hyper become flat, pall change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 5v to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player 3Hyper play participate in games or sport v feel indifferent towards 4She died to worldly things and eventually entered a monastery Hyper experience, feel undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind 1n a device used for shaping metal Hypo|Hyper stamp a block or die used to imprint a mark or design shaping tool a tool for shaping metal 2n a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods Hyper cutlery, cutter, cutting tool a cutting implement; a tool for cutting 3v cut or shape with a die 5Die out leather for belts Syn|Hyper die out cut out form and create by cutting out n a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers Syn|Hypo|Hyper dice five, five-spot a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips four, four-spota playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips one-spota domino or die whose upward face shows one pip six, six-spota playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips cube, square block a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube |
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