Meaning

• To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

• To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).

  "He died a hero's death."

• To yearn intensely.

  "I'm dying for a packet of crisps."

• To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.

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

• To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

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

• To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

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

• 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."

• (of a machine) To stop working, to break down.

  "My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning."

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

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

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

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

  "to die to pleasure or to sin"

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

• To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

• (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

  "Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal..."