# die

> English word · Verb · IPA /daɪ/ · frequency rank #902

## Definitions
1. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
2. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
3. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
4. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
5. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
6. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
7. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
8. To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
9. To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
10. To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.
11. To yearn intensely.
12. To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
13. To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
14. To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
15. To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
16. To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
17. To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
18. To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
19. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
20. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
21. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
22. To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
23. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
24. To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

## Etymology
From Middle English deyen, probably from Old Norse deyja, from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną (“to die”). Displaced native Old English sweltan, whence Modern English swelt, and Old English steorfan, whence modern starve.

## Easily confused with
- **do** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-do)
- **Dr** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-dr)
- **DJ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-dj)
- **DM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-dm)
- **DS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-ds)
- **DL** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-dl)
- **DT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-dt)
- **DP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-dp)
- **dw** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-dw)
- **Dx** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-dx)
- **DV** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-dv)
- **dy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-dy)
- **DQ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-dq)
- **due** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-due)
- **dog** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-dog)
- **dry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-dry)
- **don** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-don)
- **DNA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-dna)
- **doc** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-doc)
- **DVD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/die-vs-dvd)

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/die