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

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

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

(figuratively) To yearn intensely.

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

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

(hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

(hyperbolic)(hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.

(machine) To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".

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

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

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.

(architecture) 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.

(slang) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.

A device for cutting into a specified shape.

A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)

A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.

An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.

(semiconductors) (plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.

Any small cubical or square body.

(Q45089) An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.

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

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