Definition of "die" in Anglais

verb

1. (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

2. (transitive) To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).

   • He died a hero's death.
   • They died a thousand deaths.

3. (video games, slang) To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.

   • Whenever my brother dies, he ragequits.

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.

   • I'm really dying to eat in that new restaurant.
   • I'm dying for a piss.

5. (intransitive, uncommon, idiomatic) To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.

   • The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.

6. (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

   • He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.

7. (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

   • If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die.

8. (intransitive, figurative, hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.

   • When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.
   • I literally died when I saw that.

9. (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".

   • My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.
   • Sorry I couldn't call you. My phone died.
   • My battery died and my charger was at home.

10. (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).

11. (intransitive, of a legislative bill or resolution) To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.

    • The proposed gas tax died after the powerful rural senator refused to let it out of committee.

12. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.

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

14. (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.

    • to die to pleasure or to sin

15. (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.